Evans v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

Judge COHN JUBELIRER.

Before this Court are the preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer filed by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) in response to a pro se petition for review in the nature of a complaint in mandamus filed by Warren Evans (Petitioner), in which he alleges that the Board violated the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution1 and the Pennsylvania Constitution2 by retroactively relying on the 1996 Amendment to what is commonly known as the “Parole Act” to deny his parole.3 For the reasons that follow, we hereby sustain the…