Crooker v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution

At the time he filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Stephen S. Crooker was serving three five-year sentences at M.C.I., Norfolk. One sentence (the “A sentence”) was for burning a motor vehicle with intent to defraud an insurer (G. L. c. 266, § 10). The other two (the “B sentences”) were for conspiracy to assist in the forgery of identification papers for a driver’s license (Crooker used the name of a person who had died in infancy between 1930 and 1935) and assisting another falsely to procure a driver’s license. See G. L. c. 90, § 24B. Each sentence was for five years at M.C.I.,…