GOOD v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION


417 Mass. 329 (1994)

629 N.E.2d 1321

JOHN GOOD vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 16, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. King (Lowry E. Heussler with him) for the plaintiff.

Thomas E. Abruzzese for the Commissioner of Correction.

Peter Costanza & Barry Barkow, for Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


LIACOS, C.J.

The plaintiff John Good is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, imposed by a judge of the Superior Court after his conviction of murder in the first degree. He filed this action in the Superior Court for the county of Middlesex, invoking G.L.c. 12, §§ 11H - 11J (1992 ed.), claiming that the defendant commissioner and the Department of Correction (department) denied him periodic review of his inmate classification as required...

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