Commonwealth v. Fenton F.

On April 21, 1993, as a result of an incident in which a taxi cab driver was shot and killed during the course of an attempted robbery, three indictments issued against the defendant charging him with murder in the first degree, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm without a license. In the juvenile session of the Roxbury District Court, the defendant, then a juvenile who was sixteen years old, pleaded delinquent by reason of each of the charges and was sentenced pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 72, as in effect in 1993, to from fifteen to twenty years of confinement.

On January 31, 2001, the…