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AVERETT, PETITIONER

404 Mass. 28 (1989)

533 N.E.2d 1023

JOHN AVERETT, petitioner (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

February 6, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judy G. Zeprun, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondents.

Peter Costanza (Barry Barkow with him) for the petitioners.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The inmate petitioners filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus under G.L.c. 248 (1986 ed.), in the Superior Court, claiming that they had served in full their sentences, but that the Commissioner of Correction (commissioner)2 had wrongly ordered the forfeiture of their statutory good time credits. A Superior Court judge allowed the petitions, issued the writs, and denied the...

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