Legal Opinion
Kinney
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 24, 1977PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The petitioner appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, filed in the Superior Court.
In March, 1974, the petitioner was sentenced to a two and one-half to three year term at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. In September, 1974, following his transfer to the Plymouth Forestry Camp, he escaped. He was arrested on January 3, 1975, in Amherst and charged with several offenses. At his arraignment later that day in the District Court of Hampshire on the local offenses, he revealed that he had escaped, and asked to be returned to Walpole. The request…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Board of Regents of State Colleges v. RothSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Zerbst v. KidwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Ernest C. Davis v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by18 opinions
- 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
- Commonwealth v. KaneMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1984
- Commonwealth v. BeauchampMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. FoleyMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1983
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