CLAY v. MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD

SJC-12032.

475 Mass. 133 (2016)

FREDERICK CLAY v. MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 12, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Harris for the petitioner.

Jennifer K. Zalnasky , Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Barbara Kaban , for Youth Advocacy Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.


In 1981, the petitioner, Frederick Clay, was convicted of murder in the first degree. The victim was a Boston taxicab driver. When the crime was committed in 1979, Clay was a juvenile. He was sentenced to serve the statutorily mandated term of life in prison without the possibility of parole, see G. L. c. 265, § 2, which conviction...

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