Commonwealth v. Flaherty

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeals from orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Pike County granting Timothy Flaherty a furlough from the county correctional facility to attend a veterans’ post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) treatment program. Upon careful review, we are compelled to reverse.

The trial court set forth the following factual and procedural history of this case:

[Flaherty], a seriously disabled veteran, was charged with thirteen offenses stemming from two separate incidents involving driving under the influence of alcohol. On January 10, 2013, [Flaherty] entered an open…