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Rule 707 – Documents Transmitted to Prison

May 14, 2021 | Criminal Procedure, Pennsylvania

When a defendant is sentenced to a term of imprisonment of two years or more, a copy of each of the following shall be delivered to the person in charge of the correctional facility to which the defendant is committed at the time the defendant is delivered thereto:

(1) any available pre-sentence investigation report;
(2) any report by a state correctional diagnostic and classification center; and
(3) any medical, psychiatric, or social agency report used by the sentencing judge in imposing sentence or by a probation department or state correctional diagnostic and classification center in compiling a report to the sentencing judge.

234 Pa. Code ยง 707

Committee Explanatory Reports:

Final Report explaining the March 1, 2000 reorganization and renumbering of the rules published with the Court’s Order at 30 Pa.B. 1478 (March 18, 2000).

Final Report explaining the March 15, 2013 revision of the Comment adding citations to the Sentencing Code published with the Court’s Order at 43 Pa.B. 1705 (March 30, 2013).