KENT v. COMMONWEALTH

No. 99-P-1182.

52 Mass. App. Ct. 28 (2001)

THOMAS KENT & another v. COMMONWEALTH & another.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 6, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crispin Birnbaum, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Leonard H. Kesten for the plaintiffs.

Present: RAPOZA, DREBEN, & COHEN, JJ.


COHEN, J.

Leominster police officer Thomas Kent was shot and seriously wounded on September 15, 1995, by John J. Mac-Neil, a convicted murderer who had been serving a life sentence in the Massachusetts prison system until his parole in 1987. Kent and his wife and three children brought suit under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act, G. L. c. 258, against the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Parole Board, alleging...

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