POINDEXTER v. PA. BD. OF PROB. AND PAROLE

No. 137 Misc. Dkt. No. 2.

47 Pa.Commw. 183 (1979)

Dewitt David Poindexter, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 2, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewitt David Poindexter, petitioner, for himself.

Stephen J. Mascherino, Assistant Attorney General, Robert A. Greevy, Assistant Attorney General, and Edward G. Biester, Jr., Attorney General, for respondent.

Submitted on briefs, June 19, 1979, to President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS, BLATT, DiSALLE, CRAIG and MacPHAIL.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, November 2, 1979:

Petitioner was serving a sentence of five-to-twenty years at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford with a recomputed minimum sentence date of September 22, 1976 and maximum date of September 22, 1991, when he was assigned to the Philadelphia Community Treatment Center.1 He absconded from the Center on December 27, 1975.

In August of 1976, he was arrested and charged with escape...

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