The Commonwealth Court vacated four Williamsport property-maintenance convictions because the citations charged violations of a code edition the city had never adopted.
The Commonwealth Court held that Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act did not prevent the Parole Board from denying street-time credit after a parolee’s third drug-related DUI.
The Commonwealth Court held that the Parole Board timely conducted a revocation hearing after a federal prisoner returned to Pennsylvania custody and had no duty to seek an earlier interstate transfer.
The Commonwealth Court held that a dog attack is without provocation when, under all surrounding circumstances, the victim could not reasonably foresee that her conduct would trigger the attack.
The Commonwealth Court held that prison discipline delaying parole eligibility does not deprive a Pennsylvania inmate of a protected liberty interest.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that the 2020 amendment changing mandatory parole review for rape convicts from annual to triennial (61 Pa.C.S. § 6139(a)(3.3)) does not violate the ex post facto clause, because it alters only when the Board must conduct review—not the standards for granting parole or the Board’s authority to act on its own motion sooner.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania reversed the denial of a license suspension appeal, holding that Court Administration’s ten-year failure to schedule a hearing — despite repeated court orders to do so — constituted an extraordinary government-caused delay that violated the licensee’s due process rights under the Middaugh framework and mandated dismissal of the suspension.