PIERCE v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION


450 Mass. 1022 (2008)

GERALD PIERCE v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

January 16, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Pierce, pro se.

Eva M. Badway, Assistant Attorney General (David Slade with her) for the defendants.


Gerald Pierce appeals from the denial of his petition pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3, by a single justice of this court. We affirm.

Pierce was convicted of a felony and sentenced to imprisonment from eight to ten years. Approximately one year into his sentence, he escaped from a prison camp and was not returned to custody for nearly two decades. Thereafter, he pleaded guilty in the District Court to escape, pursuant to G. L. c. 127, § 83C; was determined...

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