# Commonwealth v. Ward

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · February 28, 1985 · 340 Pa. Super. 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9516298

## Case

- **Full name:** COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Bruce WARD, Appellant
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** February 28, 1985
- **Citations:** 340 Pa. Super. 1; 489 A.2d 809; 1985 Pa. Super. LEXIS 6094
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Roberts
- **Judges:** Brosky, Tamilia, Roberts
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9516298

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating “[a] parole violator convicted -3- J-S19024-25 and sentenced to prison for another offense must serve his or her ‘back time’ and the new sentence is to run consecutive (and not concurrent) to the time remaining on the original sentence”

## Opinion text

ROBERTS, Judge,
concurring:
As Judge Tamilia’s opinion makes clear, the appellant is not subjected to an increase in punishment by virtue of the order amending his sentence, which merely changes the place of confinement from the Erie County Jail to the state institution where he is currently serving an extended sentence. Appellant has in no way established his entitlement to any relief, and consequently I join the order of affirmance.

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