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QUEGAN v. MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD

423 Mass. 834 (1996)

EDWARD L. QUEGAN v. MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the plaintiff.

R. Michael Cassidy, Assistant Attorney General, for the Massachusetts Parole Board.

Patricia Garin, Martin Gideonse, Joel Thompson & John Cashion, for Northeastern School of Law Prisoners' Assistance Project & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

A Superior Court judge dismissed the complaint of the plaintiff (Quegan) which, as amended, sought a declaration that the defendant, Massachusetts Parole Board (board), in deciding whether to grant Quegan parole, may not consider his refusal to admit his guilt of the crimes for which he was sentenced.1 Quegan appealed. The board has appealed the denial of its motion to disqualify the Committee for Public Counsel Services...

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