Legal Opinion
Backman v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 1, 1982Published
1Opinion of the Court
387 Mass. 549 (1982)
441 N.E.2d 523
JACK H. BACKMAN
vs.
SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.
August 4, 1982.
November 1, 1982.
Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.
William P. Homans, Jr. (Anne E. Braudy with him) for the plaintiff.
Alexander G. Gray, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
Scott P. Lewis, Marjorie Heins & Alan Jay Rom, for Massachusetts Campaign Against Restoration of the Death Penalty, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.
WILKINS, J.
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