Legal Opinion
Blair v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 25, 1983No. Appeal, No. 185 Miscellaneous Docket No. 2PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Rogers,
The issue in this case, as it has been from the beginning, is essentially one of fact — that of whether the petitioner, Joseph Blair, in February, 1978, while confined in the Philadelphia County Prison awaiting sentence after conviction of an offense committed while on parole, requested a continuance of his revocation hearing.
Blair had been convicted of the new offense on December 20, 1977; he was provided a full board revocation hearing on November 17,1978. He has maintained that he never requested a continuance and that his hearing was not therefore held within a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Bronson v. Commonwealth Board of Probation & ParoleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
- Commonwealth ex rel. Hendrickson v. Pennsylvania State Board of ParoleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
- Commonwealth v. BrittinghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
- Blair v. CommonwealthCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
3Cited by18 opinions
- Weaver v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1997
- Myers v. RidgeCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
- Reider v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1986
- Johnson v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
- Coades v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & ParoleCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
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