Sheffield v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

OPINION BY

Judge McGINLEY.

Before this Court are the preliminary objections of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) (collectively, Respondents) to the petition for review filed in this Court’s original jurisdiction by Dennis Lee Sheffield (Petitioner).

Petitioner is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institute-Coal Township (SCI-Coal Township). Petitioner is serving an eighteen to sixty-two year aggregated sentence for rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and reckless endangerment. His minimum sentence date was…