Campbell v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “[The predecessor statute to Section 6138(a)(4) of the Code] provide[d] in part that “[t]he period of time for which the parole violator is required to serve shall be computed from and begin on the date that he is taken into custody to be returned to the institution as a parole ■violator.” This Court, however, in [Campbell], held that where the Board pursuant to [the prior statute] recommits a convicted parole violator to serve the balance of an original sentence before beginning service of a new term, the prisoner’s service of backtime on the original sentence must be 'computed from the date the Board revokes the prisoner’s parole. The Court further noted in Campbell that the time served by the prisoner prior to the date parole is revoked must be applied to the new sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilson v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

2. “parole has been revoked and the remainder of the original sentence becomes due and owing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barnes v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole