Simpson v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Wallace Simpson has filed a petition for review, from a decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) denying his request for administrative relief from his recommitment as a technical parole violator. In challenging the recommitment, Simpson alleges that a Board parole agent had told him that his parole had been completed. Based on that allegation, Simpson asserts, in a motion for summary judgment, that the Board was estopped from recommitting him as a parole violator.

Simpson was sentenced in 1964 to a term of imprisonment of from 10 to 20…