Abraham v. Department of Corrections

CRAIG, President Judge.

Before this court is a motion of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to open a peremptory judgment in a mandamus action addressed by Philadelphia’s District Attorney (DA) to the original jurisdiction of this court. The Commonwealth seeks to open this court’s peremptory mandamus order of January 13, 1992, requiring the Commonwealth to take into custody certain classes of criminal defendants incarcerated in Philadelphia county prisons by aggregating consecutive sentences under 42 Pa.C.S. § 9757, so that, if the aggregated maximum term is five years or more,…