Jester v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

CRAIG, President Judge.

The issue the court must resolve is whether appointed counsel may withdraw his representation of a petitioner in a parole revocation appeal when the request to withdraw is based solely on petitioner’s desire to proceed pro se.

In this case, counsel’s petition to withdraw includes a copy of a letter from petitioner to appointed counsel in which petitioner adamantly states that he has a constitutional right to represent himself and that he does not wish appointed counsel to represent him in his parole revocation appeal. Counsel’s petition to withdraw does not allege that…