Amicus Request(s) Approved at the January 17, 2018 Committee Meeting

Commonwealth v. Lutskov, SJC-12411

The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued the following amicus solicitation:

Where the defendant was convicted, as a youthful offender, of armed home invasion and other offenses, whether his sentence of twenty years in the State prison (the mandatory minimum for armed home invasion) violates article 26 of the Declaration of Rights.  See Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District, 466 Mass. 655 (2013), and Commonwealth v. Perez, 477 Mass. 677 (2017).