Jones v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Petitioner Stanley Jones has filed a petition for review questioning actions of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, which refused his request for administrative relief from the board’s earlier decision recommitting him as a convicted parole violator to serve eighteen months backtime on a previous sentence.

While the petitioner was on parole, the Philadelphia police had arrested him for new offenses. Petitioner’s conviction date with respect to those new charges was September 8, 1981.

In accordance with 37 Pa. Code §71.4(2), which requires that a parole…