FORBES v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS


931 A.2d 88 (2007)

Michael FORBES, Petitioner v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS and Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 19, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Sosnov, Wyndmoor, for petitioner.

Vincent R. Mazeski, Asst. Counsel and Suzanne Hueston, Chief Counsel, Camp Hill, for respondent, Department of Corrections.

Alan M. Robinson, Asst. Counsel and Victoria S. Madden, Chief Counsel, Harrisburg, for respondent, Board of Probation and Parole.

BEFORE: LEADBETTER, President Judge, FRIEDMAN, Judge, and McCLOSKEY, Senior Judge.


OPINION BY Judge FRIEDMAN.

The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (Department) and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) have filed preliminary objections to the petition for review filed by Michael Forbes (Forbes) in this court's original jurisdiction. Forbes has filed an application for summary relief. We deny Forbes summary relief, sustain the preliminary objections and dismiss the petition.

On February 19, 1981, Forbes received a sentence...

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