Legal Opinion

Doria v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided August 19, 1993No. 225 M.D. 1992PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CRAIG, President Judge.

The petitioner, Edward Doria, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, seeks to compel the respondents, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, to recalculate the allocation of the credit he earned for his time spent in the Chester County Prison before being sentenced in Delaware County. This matter has come before us in our original jurisdiction as a proceeding to obtain a writ of mandamus. Doria asks that we grant his petition on the pleadings. We grant Doria partial judgment on the pleadings,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Lantzy v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1979

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Evans v. Secretary Pennsylvania Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2011
  2. Doxsey v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1996
  3. Detar v. BeardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2006
  4. Chester Water Authority v. Pennsylvania Public Utility CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
  5. Taglienti v. Department of Corrections of the Penna.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2002

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