Commonwealth v. Jamison

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This case presents the question of whether a common pleas court retains jurisdiction in matters regarding parole when although the maximum aggregate sentence is two or more years, each component sentence imposed has a maximum of less than two years. Our answer today, as it has been each time this issue has come before us, is no.

Bruce Jamison was granted reparole from his incarceration for aggravated assault in the first degree. On December 12, 1989, Mr. Jamison hit a fruit and vegetable salesman in the head with a two-by-four. He was found guilty of aggravated assault,…