Legal Opinion
Blake v. Massachusetts Parole Board
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 11, 1976PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
On June 27, 1969, the plaintiff Albert J. Blake was convicted on three counts of armed robbery (G. L. c. 265, § 17) and was sentenced to three concurrent eight-to-ten year terms of imprisonment at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. Armed robbery is one of a number of offenses for which strict parole eligibility standards are set by G. L. c. 127, § 133. Thus the plaintiff would first become automatically eligible for parole only after he had served two-thirds of his minimum sentence. The strict rule, however, is relaxed to some extent by the same § 133: on the…
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