Hudson v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

Steven Hudson (Petitioner) has appealed from a denial of administrative relief by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board). Petitioner challenges the timeliness of his violation and revocation hearing and contends that an excessive amount of backtime was imposed in his case. We affirm.

Since the chronology of events in this case is quite lengthy, we will attempt to limit our discussion to those dates which are essential to our analysis. While on parole from a sentence of seven to fifteen years for a conviction of five counts of robbery,1 Petitioner was…