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BUCKMAN v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

SJC-12725.

484 Mass. 14 (2020)

JOSEPH BUCKMAN & another v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 28, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth Greenberg, (John Reinstein, also present) for the plaintiffs.

Mary C. Eiro-Bartevyan, (Bradley A. Sultan, & Richard E. Gordon, also present) for the defendants.

Pamela Alford, Assistant District Attorney, for district attorney for the Norfolk district.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Jeffrey G. Harris, for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Chauncey B. Wood, & Donna M. Cuipylo, for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Tatum A. Pritchard, for Disability Law Center.

Mary Price, of the District of Columbia, David Milton, & Rebecca Schapiro, for Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts & another.

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

As part of the comprehensive criminal justice reform legislation enacted in 2018, the Legislature established a medical parole program for prisoners in State and county custody who are terminally ill or permanently incapacitated. See G. L. c. 127, § 119A, inserted by St. 2018, c. 69, § 97. In January 2019, counsel for prisoners...

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