Wright v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

Before this Court is an appeal by Mackey L. Wright (Petitioner) from a denial by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) of his request for administrative relief stemming from a decision to recommit Petitioner as a convicted parole violator.

Petitioner, on parole at the time, was arrested on November 17, 1980, by the Philadelphia Police and charged with, inter alia, recklessly endangering another person. He was convicted of that charge in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on January 13, 1981 and a sentence of “time-in” to twenty-three months…