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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

421 A.2d 203
    Roy A. BROWN, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Submitted Sept. 24, 1980.
    Decided Oct. 31, 1980.
    
      Roy A. Brown, I. P. P., in pro. per.
    Arthur R. Thomas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Bd. of Probation and Parole, Harrisburg, for appellee.
    Before O’BRIEN, C. J., and ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

The order of the Commonwealth Court is affirmed.

ROBERTS, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which NIX, J., joins.

ROBERTS, Justice,

dissenting.

I dissent from the summary affirmance of an order of the Commonwealth Court denying pro se appellant Roy Brown’s petition for review of a Board of Probation and Parole’s recomputation of sentence. The matter should first be remanded for a determination of whether there has been an “intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right” to counsel. See Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458, 464, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023, 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938); Commonwealth v. Cooney, 439 Pa. 324, 266 A.2d 650 (1970) (record remanded for determination whether pro se PCHA appellant knowingly waived right to counsel); see also Bronson v. Pa. Board of Probation and Parole, 492 Pa. -, 421 A.2d 1021 (1980) (indigent parole violator seeking review of Board determination entitled to counsel).

NIX, J., joins this dissenting opinion.