DETAR v. BEARD


898 A.2d 26 (2006)

Clifford L. DETAR, Jr., Petitioner v. Jeffrey BEARD, Secretary PA Dept. of Corrections and David J. Wakefield Superintendant and S.C.I. Greensburg Inmate Records Office Supervisor, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided April 21, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford L. Detar, Jr., petitioner, pro se.

Vincent R. Mazeski, Asst. Counsel and Michael A. Farnan, Chief Counsel for Corrections, Camp Hill, for respondent.

BEFORE: PELLEGRINI, Judge, and SIMPSON, Judge, and KELLEY, Senior Judge.


OPINION BY Judge SIMPSON.

Before this Court in our original jurisdiction is the preliminary objection of the Department of Corrections (DOC)1 to a petition for review in the nature of mandamus filed by inmate Clifford L. Detar, Jr., representing himself. DOC challenges the legal sufficiency of the petition, asserting Detar lacks a clear right to the credit he seeks on his new state sentence. We...

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