Commonwealth ex Rel. Choice v. Brierley

Full title: Commonwealth ex rel. Choice, Appellant, v. Brierley

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Mar 20, 1973

301 A.2d 372 (Pa. 1973)

301 A.2d 372

Opinion

September 29, 1972.

March 20, 1973.

Argued September 29, 1972. Before JONES, C. J., EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY, NIX and MANDERINO, JJ.

Appeal, No. 95, March T., 1972, from decree of Commonwealth Court, No. 97 C.D. 1971, in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Mackey Raymond Choice v. Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent of State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. Decree reversed and case remanded to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole for counselled hearing on revocation of parole.

Same case in Commonwealth Court: 5 Pa. Commw. 49.

Habeas corpus.

Decree entered granting respondent's motion for summary judgment and denying petition, opinion per curiam. Relator appealed.

John A. Miller, with him Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rodewald, Kyle and Buerger, for appellant.

Leonard Packel, Deputy Attorney General, with him Curtis M. Pontz, Deputy Attorney General, and J. Shane Creamer, Attorney General, for appellees.

OPINION PER CURIAM, March 20, 1973:

Decree reversed and case remanded to the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole for a counselled hearing on the revocation of parole. See Com. ex rel. Rambeau v. Board of Probation and Parole, 4 Pa. Commw. 152 (1972).

Mr. Chief Justice JONES, Mr. Justice EAGEN, Mr. Justice POMEROY and Mr. Justice MANDERINO adhere to the views that they expressed in Com. ex rel. Rambeau v. Board of Probation and Parole, 455 Pa. 8, 314 A.2d 842 (1973).