Alston v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

Senior Judge DOYLE.

Before this Court, in our original jurisdiction, is the preliminary objection in the form of a demurrer filed by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole to the petition for review, in the nature of mandamus, of Vernal Alston. We sustain the Board’s objection 2 and dismiss Alston’s petition. 3

Alston is currently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania (F.C.I.-Schuylkill). 4 On September 14, 1994, Alston was paroled from a state correctional institution where he had been serving a sentence of ten to twenty years, which…