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AMAKER v. BD. OF PROBATION & PAROLE

525 Pa. 100 (1990)

576 A.2d 50

James AMAKER, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, PENNSYLVANIA BOARD OF PROBATION AND PAROLE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided June 13, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelley Stark, Chief-Appellate Div., Office of the Public Defender, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

John W. Packel, Philadelphia, for Public Defender Ass'n of Pennsylvania, amicus curiae.

Ernest Preate, Atty. Gen. and Robert Greevy, Chief Counsel, Timothy P. Wile, Asst. Chief Counsel, Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation and Parole, Harrisburg, for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.

OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

In the instant appeal we are faced once more with the question of whether the Commonwealth Court properly assessed attorney's fees for the filing of a frivolous appeal. In Smith v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, 524 Pa. 500, 574 A.2d 558 (1990), we determined that an appellate court had the power to assess attorney's fees against court-appointed...

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