In the News: Judges only permitted to ban convicts from city for county sentence

Federal Judge Robert C. Mitchell has ruled that common pleas judges in Pennsylvania are permitted to ban convicts from a municipality only when the defendant is given a “county sentence” (a county sentence is any sentence less than two years of incarceration). When a defendant is given a “state sentence” (a sentence of more than two years of incarceration) the authority to keep a defendant out of a municipality rests with the Pennsylvania State Board of Probation and Parole.