Legal Opinion
Wilder v. Department of Corrections
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 13, 1996PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELLEGRINI, Judge.
Before this court are preliminary objections filed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (Department) to a petition for review filed by Paul Wilder (Petitioner). Petitioner’s petition essentially seeks a writ of mandamus to require the Department to reinstate him to his pre-re-lease status.
Petitioner alleges that while serving a term of incarceration at a Philadelphia Community Corrections Center (CCC) on pre-release status, a urinalysis report indicated that he was positive for the use of cocaine. A condition of his pre-release program was to refrain from the…
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- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Vitek v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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