DuPONT v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION


448 Mass. 389 (2007)

MICHAEL KEVIN DuPONT v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & OTHERS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 23, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie E. Daniele (Wendy Weber with her) for the defendants.

Aviva E. Jeruchim for the plaintiff.

Martha F. Davis, Sarah R. Wunsch, Beth I.Z. Boland, Rheba Rutkowski, Cynthia M. Guizzetti, & Ellen J. Zucker, for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, & Cordy, JJ.


CORDY, J.

In 1993, while serving a twenty-year State prison sentence for armed robbery and assault at the maximum security prison, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), Michael Kevin DuPont was found guilty by a special hearing officer2 of a "major" violation of prison rules.3 He was sentenced to serve eighteen months in...

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