Smith v. Department of Corrections

OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

The Department of Corrections (Department) has filed preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer to the petition for review (Petition) filed by Carl M. Smith (Smith) in this court’s original jurisdiction.

Currently, Smith is a prisoner at the state correctional institution at Greene (SCI-Greene). Smith was arrested in December of 1978 and was found guilty of robbery and burglary, for which he served a sentence of ten to twenty years under DOC # AM-2447. In 1991, Smith began serving another sentence of eleven to twenty-two years under DOC # BQ-3684. (Petition, ¶¶…