Cox v. Commonwealth
Annotate this CaseDefendant was sentenced as a second-degree persistent felon to a twenty-year term of imprisonment for first-degree possession of a controlled substance, firearm enhanced and to a concurrent ten-year term of imprisonment for possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. Defendant appealed, contending that a parole officer's incomplete and inaccurate testimony regarding sentence credits potentially available to parolees rendered the penalty phase of his trial fundamentally unfair. The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's sentence, holding that to the extent, if any, that the parole officer's lack of detail about credits against a parolee's sentence could be deemed erroneous, the error was not palpable, and therefore, Defendant was fairly sentenced.
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