Commonwealth v. Tilghman

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.

Phillip Tilghman was granted early parole from two consecutive sentences for robbery and conspiracy. On February 8, 1993, Mr. Tilghman entered a negotiated guilty plea in exchange for a sentence of eleven and one-half to twenty-three months’…