Oliver v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

Opinion by

Judge Barry,

John Oliver, Jr. (petitioner) petitions for review of the denial of his request for administrative relief by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) from its decision to recommit him as a technical parole violator (TPV) for thirty-six months backtime.

According to the record certified by the Board, petitioner was paroled on July 1, 1977, from a ten to twenty year sentence imposed after his conviction in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County for Aggravated Assault and Battery. In May, 1979, he was arrested, and subsequently convicted in the Court…