Legal Opinion
Clay v. Massachusetts Parole Board
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 12, 2016No. SJC 12032PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
In 1981, the petitioner, Frederick Clay, was convicted of murder in the first degree. The victim was a Boston taxicab driver. When the crime was committed in 1979, Clay was a juvenile. He was sentenced to serve the statutorily mandated term of life in prison without the possibility of parole, see G. L. c. 265, § 2, which conviction and sentence we affirmed on appeal. 2 See Commonwealth v. Watson, 388 Mass. 536, 548 (1983), S.C., 393 Mass. 297 (1984).
More than thirty years later, we determined that G. L. c. 265, § 2, which mandated Clay’s sentence of life in prison without the possibility of…
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