Legal Opinion
DuPont v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 23, 2007PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
In 1993, while serving a twenty-year State prison sentence for armed robbery and assault at the maximum security prison, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), Michael Kevin DuPont was found guilty by a special hearing officer2 of a “major” violation of prison rules.3 He was sentenced to serve eighteen months in the Department of Correction (department) departmental disciplinary unit (DDU), which is located in the same prison.4 DuPont filed a complaint in the Superior Court raising procedural challenges to the hearing process and alleging that…
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- Johnson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 2005
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3Cited by51 opinions
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