COMMONWEALTH v. CAMPBELL


378 Mass. 680 (1979)

393 N.E.2d 820

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOHN CAMPBELL, JR. (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

August 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Usher A. Moren for Arthur Keigney.

Alan P. Caplan for Stephen J. Doherty.

Alfred E. Nugent for John Campbell, Jr.

Charles J. Hely, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


QUIRICO, J.

Robert A. Perrotta was brutally murdered in his cell at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution (MCI) at Walpole on November 25, 1976. The defendants John Campbell, Jr., Stephen Doherty, and Arthur Keigney, who were all inmates at MCI Walpole on that date, were indicated, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree as a result of this incident. Each was sentenced to "imprisonment in the state prison for life." See G.L.

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