Court Opinion

ID: 9698962
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 20:05:31.207519+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:44.978240
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Judge,
concurring:
I agree that this appeal should be quashed because the record establishes that appellant has already been extradited to Delaware. Accordingly, this case is controlled by the decisions of our courts which hold that a writ of habeas corpus shall not issue when the relator was once, but is no longer, in the custody of this Commonwealth. See e.g. Commonwealth ex. rel. Wood v. Maroney, 207 Pa.Super. 191, 215 A.2d 286 (1965); Commonwealth ex. rel. Spader v. Burke, 171 Pa.Super. 289, 90 A.2d 849 (1952) (writs of habeas corpus will not issue in favor of parolees). Cf. Michigan v. Doran, 439 U.S. 282, 99 S.Ct. 530, 58 L.Ed.2d 521 (1978); Commonwealth ex. rel. Marshall v. Gedney, 237 Pa.Super. 372, 352 A.2d 528 (1975) (once asylum state has extradited based on demanding state’s probable cause determination, no further judicial inquiry may be had in asylum state).