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DEAL v. MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD

SJC-12746.

484 Mass. 457 (2020)

TIMOTHY DEAL, v. MASSACHUSETTS PAROLE BOARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 6, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merritt Schnipper ( Barbara Kaban also present) for the plaintiff.

Matthew P. Landry , Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

David Rassoul Rangaviz , Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Benjamin Niehaus , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

The plaintiff, Timothy Deal, is serving a life sentence for committing murder in the second degree when he was seventeen. He sought review of the parole board's (board's) denial of his application for parole in the Superior Court, alleging that the board abused its discretion by failing to analyze properly the "distinctive attributes of...

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