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No Double Jeopardy in Massachusetts Disciplinary Hearings
Loaded on April 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1997, page 13
In the October, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that a state trial court in Massachusetts, in an unpublished ruling, had dismissed criminal indictments against twelve prisoners because the indictments were brought after the prisoners had already been subjected to prison disciplinary hearings and punishment. The trial court held that ...
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