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KENNEY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

399 Mass. 137 (1987)

502 N.E.2d 1385

RICHARD A. KENNEY vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

January 26, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Lambert Greenblatt for the plaintiff.

Paul A. Lazour, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Correction & another.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

This case concerns the basis on which the defense of laches may bar an inmate's complaint challenging prison disciplinary proceedings resulting in the forfeiture of good time credits.2 The plaintiff, an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction, filed a pro se complaint in the Superior Court in August, 1983, against the Commissioner of Correction and...

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