Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beauchamp
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 9, 1992PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
The Commonwealth appeals from an order of a Superior Court judge awarding the defendant credit against his prison sentence for time spent in custody in another jurisdiction while he contested rendition to Massachusetts, and from a denial of a motion to modify that order. The defendant moved, under Mass. R. Crim. P. 30, 378 Mass. 900 (1979), to require the Department of Correction to award credit for time served outside Massachusetts. The judge treated the motion as an application for declaratory relief. We transferred the appeals here on our own motion and we now reverse.
The judge based his…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Michigan v. DoranSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Sweeney v. WoodallSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Chalifoux v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Lewis v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
- Brown v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Robert C. Beauchamp v. Paul Murphy, the Superintendent of the Old Colony Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. BeauchampMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- HinnantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
- State v. HarnumSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1997
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