Hudson v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole

This is a direct appeal from a Commonwealth Court order dismissing Appellant's petition for review, in which he argued that he is entitled to be considered for parole after having received a sentence of life imprisonment for second-degree murder.

In 1978, Appellant burglarized a home and shot two individuals with a handgun, killing one of them. He was convicted of second-degree murder, see 18 Pa.C.S. § 2502(b), and related offenses. See Commonwealth v. Hudson , 489 Pa. 620, 636, 414 A.2d 1381, 1389 (1980). The court imposed a sentence of life imprisonment on the murder conviction, see 18…