Legal Opinion
Young v. Com. Bd. of Probation and Parole
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 21, 1979No. 556PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIX, Justice.
This is an appeal from an order of the Commonwealth Court sustaining preliminary objections, in the nature of a demurrer and dismissing appellant’s complaint. For the reasons that follow we now affirm the order of the court below.
Appellant, Jose C. Young, filed a complaint in mandamus against the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) asserting an unlawful recomputation of a prison sentence that appellant was required to serve. Accepting as true the well pleaded averments of the complaint, 1 appellant was originally sentenced on June 29, 1971 to six years…
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