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

No. 67 Miscellaneous Docket No. 3.

72 Pa.Commw. 257 (1983)

Leroy Head, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 23, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy P. Wile, Assistant Public Defender, for petitioner.

Arthur R. Thomas, Assistant Chief Counsel, with him, Robert A. Greevy, Chief Counsel, Jay C. Waldman, General Counsel, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondent.

Submitted on briefs January 20, 1983, to Judges ROGERS, CRAIG and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.

PER CURIAM OPINION, February 23, 1983:

In this parole revocation case, Leroy Head claims that, in light of his history of mental illness, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole abused its discretion and violated his constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment by recommitting him to a state correctional facility instead of assigning him to an inpatient residential mental health treatment program.

The board contends that the hearing...

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