Legal Opinion
Myers v. Ridge
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 15, 1998PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLEY, Judge.
Before this court are the preliminary objections of Governor Thomas Ridge, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) and Martin F. Horn, Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (collectively, Respondents) to Joseph Myers’ pro se petition for review of the decision of the Board denying his application for parole from the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon.
In 1982, Myers and his cousin (co-defendant) were arrested and charged with murder and other related offenses. Myers was convicted of third-degree murder and was sentenced to a term of…
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