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    This document is a court opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit regarding an appeal of a denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant contends that aggregating the minimum and maximum sentences for consecutive sentences as required by a Pennsylvania statute made his confinement unconstitutional. However, the court found that the purpose of the statute was to eliminate requirements for prisoners to apply for parole between consecutive sentences. The court did not find any constitutional issues with the statute that would warrant federal habeas corpus relief. The district court's judgment was affirmed.

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    This document is a court opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit regarding an appeal of a denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant contends that aggregating the minimum and maximum sentences for consecutive sentences as required by a Pennsylvania statute made his confinement unconstitutional. However, the court found that the purpose of the statute was to eliminate requirements for prisoners to apply for parole between consecutive sentences. The court did not find any constitutional issues with the statute that would warrant federal habeas corpus relief. The district court's judgment was affirmed.

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    United States of America Ex Rel. Richard W. Monk, Jr. v. James F. Maroney, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 378 F.2d 55, 3rd Cir. (1967)

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    378 F.

    2d 55

    UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Richard W. MONK, Jr.,


    Appellant,
    v.
    James F. MARONEY, Superintendent, State Correctional
    Institution, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
    No. 16117.

    United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.


    Submitted Dec. 9, 1966.
    Decided April 19, 1967.

    Richard W. Monk, Jr., pro se.


    Edwin J. Martin, Robert W. Duggan, Dist. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., for
    appellee.
    Before STALEY, Chief Judge, and McLAUGHLIN and FORMAN,
    Circuit Judges.
    OPINION OF THE COURT
    PER CURIAM.

    This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
    Appellant contends that his confinement is unconstitutional by reason of the
    aggregation of the minimum and maximum sentences as required by 897 of 19
    Purdon's Pa.Stat.Ann.1 The purpose of that section was to eliminate the
    requirement that a prisoner serving consecutive sentences apply for a
    'constructive parole' before beginning to serve his next consecutive sentence.
    See Commonwealth ex rel. Lycett v. Ashe, 145 Pa. Super. 26, 20 A.2d 881
    (1941).

    Construing the Act with that legislative purpose in mind, we can discern no
    issue of constitutional dimension which is essential to Federal habeas corpus
    relief.

    The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.

    '897. Consecutive sentences, computation of


    'whenever, after the effective date of this act, two or more sentences to run
    consecutively are imposed by any court of this Commonwealth upon any
    person convicted of a crime therein, there sahll be deemed to be imposed upon
    such person a sentence the minimum of which shall be the total of the minimum
    limits of the several sentences so imposed, and the maximum of which shall be
    the total of the maximum limits of such sentences.'

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