Commonwealth v. Fells

ORDER

In this case appellee attempts to attack the Parole Board’s revocation of his parole through a Post Conviction Hearing Act petition filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas, the sentencing court. That court lacks jurisdiction over appeals from parole revocation, 61 P.S. § 331.17, 1 and a Post Conviction Hearing Act proceeding is not an appropriate remedy for such matters. A parole revocation is neither a conviction nor a sentence, but an administrative proceeding. Bronson v. Commonwealth Board of Probation and Parole, 491 Pa. 549, 556-58, 421 A.2d 1021, 1024-25 (1980), cert. denied, 450…