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COMMONWEALTH v. LaPLANTE

No. SJC-12570.

482 Mass. 399 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH, v. DANIEL J. LaPLANTE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 6, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merritt Schnipper , for the defendant.

Crystal L. Lyons , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Benjamin H. Keehn & Afton M. Templin , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

At the age of seventeen, the defendant, Daniel J. LaPlante, murdered a thirty-three year old pregnant mother, Priscilla Gustafson, and her two young children, Abigail and William Gustafson. The issue before us is whether the defendant's sentence of three consecutive terms of life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after forty...

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