DEAL v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

SJC-12053.

475 Mass. 307 (2016)

TIMOTHY DEAL & others, v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 25, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Kaban ( Benjamin H. Keehn , Committee for Public Counsel Services, & James W. Rosseel with her) for the petitioners.

Charles Anderson, Jr. , for the respondents.

David J. Apfel & Eileen L. Morrison , for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


This case is before us on the reservation and report of the single justice. The petitioners, Timothy Deal, Siegfried Golston, and Jeffrey Roberio, are juvenile homicide offenders4 who are serving mandatory indeterminate life sentences and who have a constitutional right to a "meaningful opportunity to obtain...

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