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COM. v. FELLS

513 Pa. 18 (1986)

518 A.2d 544

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Weldon Walter FELLS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Colville, Dist. Atty., Robert L. Eberhardt, Deputy Dist. Atty., Kenneth J. Benson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, for appellant.

John A. Halley, (court-appointed), Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

ORDER

PER CURIAM.

In this case appellee attempts to attack the Parole Board's revocation of his parole through a Post Conviction Hearing Act petition filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas, the sentencing court. That court lacks jurisdiction over appeals from parole revocation, 61 P.S. § 331.17,1 and a Post Conviction Hearing Act proceeding is not an appropriate remedy for such matters. A parole revocation is neither a conviction...

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