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COMMONWEALTH v. SMITH

SJC-13254.

491 Mass. 377 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH, v. HUBERT LEE SMITH, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

February 28, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cailin M. Campbell , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Michelle Menken , for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Stanley Donald, pro se.

Robert F. Hennessy , for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Katharine Naples-Mitchell , for Families for Justice as Healing.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, & Wendlandt, JJ.

On July 6, 2022, the defendant was released on parole after having served forty-four years in prison for his conviction of murder in the first degree. A Superior Court judge granted the defendant's motion for postconviction relief on the ground that the Commonwealth's 1978 package plea offer...

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