REIFF v. COMMONWEALTH, ET AL.

No. 70 C.D. 1975.

23 Pa.Commw. 537 (1976)

Donna Lynn Reiff, a Minor, by her parents and natural guardians, Donald A. Reiff and Dovie K. Reiff, and Donald A. Reiff and Dovie K. Reiff in their own rights, Plaintiffs v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, William F. Butler, William C. Boor, Ernest R. Conley, John H. Jefferson, Carol A. Attwood, John J. Burke, Herman Tartler and Harold G. Miller, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 4, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Alan Bank, with him Bank, Minehart & D'Angelo, for plaintiffs.

Louis F. Hinmann, III, Assistant City Solicitor, with him James M. Penny, Jr., Assistant City Solicitor, Raymond Kitty, Deputy in Charge of Litigation, Stephen Arinson, Chief Deputy City Solicitor, and Sheldon L. Albert, City Solicitor, for defendant, City of Philadelphia.

Joseph Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant, Commonwealth.

Edwin L. Scherlis, with him Frank and Margolis, for defendants, Butler, Boor, Conley, Jefferson, Attwood, Burke, Tartler and Miller.

Argued December 5, 1975, before Judges KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., and ROGERS, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, March 4, 1976:

On February 5, 1973, Donna Lynn Reiff, a minor, was shot and critically wounded during the course of a robbery at a shop, known as the Peasant Garb, located on South 17th Street in Philadelphia.1 It is alleged that the robbery was committed by three persons, one or more of whom had been released from imprisonment on parole by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board).

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