IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Theodore Lawrence, : Petitioner : : v. : No. 1132 C.D. 2018 : Submitted: December 28, 2018 Pennsylvania Board of : Probation and Parole, : Respondent : BEFORE: HONORABLE MARY HANNAH LEAVITT, President Judge HONORABLE ANNE E. COVEY, Judge HONORABLE MICHAEL H. WOJCIK, Judge OPINION NOT REPORTED MEMORANDUM OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE LEAVITT FILED: April 12, 2019 Theodore Lawrence, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCI-Dallas), petitions for review of an adjudication of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) denying his administrative appeal. Lawrence asserts that the Board erred in recalculating his maximum sentence date and, by doing so, altered a judicially imposed sentence. He also asserts that the Board erred by not crediting his sentence for time he was at liberty on parole. Concluding that Lawrence’s arguments lack merit, we affirm. On January 19, 2007, Lawrence was sentenced to a minimum sentence of three years to a maximum of 10 years on drug-related offenses (2007 sentence). At the time the sentence was imposed, Lawrence’s maximum sentence date was January 19, 2017. On February 16, 2010, Lawrence was released on parole to a community corrections facility. On October 9, 2010, Lawrence was arrested in Philadelphia on new criminal charges. He posted bail but remained incarcerated on the Board’s warrant. On February 8, 2012, Lawrence was convicted and sentenced to a term of one and one-half to three years in state prison (2012 sentence). As a result, the Board recommitted Lawrence as a convicted parole violator to serve 18 months of backtime on his 2007 sentence and recalculated his maximum sentence date to March 29, 2018. In doing so, the Board credited Lawrence’s sentence for the 487 days he was incarcerated from October 9, 2010, to February 8, 2012. By notice dated September 24, 2012, the Board reparoled Lawrence from his 2007 sentence to serve a “state detainer sentence.” Certified Record at 8 (C.R. ___). Lawrence started serving the detainer sentence on October 11, 2012, and completed it on September 9, 2015. Upon release from prison, Lawrence remained on parole from his 2007 sentence. On June 11, 2016, Lawrence was arrested in Philadelphia on drug- related offenses. He did not post bail on the new charges and was detained in county prison. The Board issued a warrant to commit and detain Lawrence on June 12, 2016. On November 2, 2016, Lawrence pled guilty and was sentenced to a term of 11 months, 15 days to 23 months in county prison (2016 sentence). On March 9, 2017, Lawrence signed a waiver of his right to a parole revocation hearing and his right to counsel; he acknowledged that his new felony convictions violated his parole. On May 27, 2017, Lawrence returned to state custody after being granted parole on his 2016 sentence. On August 1, 2017, the Board issued a decision recommitting Lawrence as a convicted parole violator to serve 18 months of backtime on his 2007 sentence and recalculated his maximum ...
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