Legal Opinion
Brown v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 5, 1958PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
By this bill for declaratory relief the plaintiff seeks a determination of the starting date of five concurrent sentences which he is now serving in the State prison. The case was submitted on a statement of agreed facts.
On May 13, 1952, the plaintiff was convicted in Middle-sex County on three indictments and was sentenced on each to from five to seven years in the State prison, the sentences to run consecutively. (These will be referred to hereinafter as the Middlesex sentences.) On September 23, 1952, the plaintiff was convicted in Suffolk County on five indictments and was sentenced on…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Ex Parte LangeSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Brown v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Commonwealth v. NovickiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Lewis v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
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3Cited by46 opinions
- Chalifoux v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Robert C. Beauchamp v. Paul Murphy, the Superintendent of the Old Colony Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
- Commonwealth v. CarterMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1980
- Manning v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional InstitutionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Green v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1968
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