SHABAZZ v. COMMONWEALTH


387 Mass. 291 (1982)

439 N.E.2d 760

RAMADAN S. SHABAZZ vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Featherston, Jr. (Susan S. Riedel with him) for Ramadan S. Shabazz.

Robert A. Marra, Jr., Legal Assistant to the District Attorney (Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The plaintiff (Shabazz) is serving two concurrent life sentences for murder in the first degree of one Thorn and of one Jeffreys, and a sentence of life imprisonment for armed robbery of Thorn, to be served from and after the other life sentences. These crimes all arose out of a single incident. Commonwealth v. Hall, 369 Mass. 715 (1976). Shabazz argues that the...

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