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SHIPPS v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE NORFOLK DISTRICT

No. SJC-11733.

472 Mass. 1001 (2015)

WILLIAM M. SHIPPS, JR. v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE NORFOLK DISTRICT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

July 6, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Shipps Jr., pro se.

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

RESCRIPT

William M. Shipps, Jr., filed a complaint in the county court in 2014, pursuant to G. L. c. 231A, seeking a declaration that his sentences for murder in the first degree under G. L. c. 265, § 2, as amended by St. 1979, c. 488, § 2, which were imposed thirty years earlier, are unconstitutional. A single justice of this court dismissed the complaint. We affirm.

In 1984, Shipps was convicted of two indictments charging murder in the first...

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