Van Dyke v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2006
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 336 Pa. Super. 411 - Commonwealth v. Frattarola · Weyand v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
Most-quoted passages
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“The board shall have exclusive power to parole and reparole, commit and recommit for violations of parole, and to discharge from parole all persons heretofore or hereafter sentenced by any court in this Commonwealth to imprisonment in any prison or penal institution thereof, whether the same be a state or county penitentiary, prison or penal institution, as hereinafter provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) The board is hereby authorized to release on parole any convict confined in any penal institution of this Commonwealth as to whom power to parole is herein granted to the board....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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