Court Opinion

ID: 9634486
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 13:14:29.450266+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:03.777089
License: Public Domain

SPAETH, Judge,
dissenting:
In addition to joining Judge JACOBS’s dissent, I wish to respond to the justification given in footnote 2 and accompanying text of the majority’s opinion for the lower court’s postponement of the revocation hearing until appellant was sentenced on the convictions that constituted the parole violation. The majority suggests that by postponing the revocation hearing, the lower court was able to learn the sentence that had been imposed upon those convictions and thus could ensure that appellant would not be punished excessively for his parole violation. It seems to me, however, that the sentencing judge on the convictions that *472constitute the parole violation can perfectly well take into account the actions of the parole revocation judge. I do not believe, therefore, that the delay of the revocation hearing can be justified on the ground that such procedure prevents excessive sentencing. Because no other reason for the delay was given by the lower court, and because appellant was prejudiced by the undue delay, the parole revocation should be vacated.