28 Mass. App. Ct. 397 - Royce’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““at least from the time Royce was returned to the custody of the [DOC] under the new State prison sentences, none of which was expressly imposed to be served from and after the unexpired portion of the [original] State prison sentence, he be deemed to have been in custody on the sentence from which he escaped. Although, as an escapee, Royce’s rights may have been limited, we think he had the right, at a minimum, to expect some reasonable degree of promptness in informing him of the Commonwealth’s intention regarding service of the [original] sentence. See Chalifoux v. Commissioner of Correction, 375 Mass. at 429 . Failure to require that the Commonwealth act with reasonable promptness in such circumstances would serve to defeat the worthwhile goal of providing prison inmates and prison authorities with some level of certainty as to the likely period of confinement, and it would create the potential for arbitrariness and caprice.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Costa v. Commissioner of Correction · 3 Mass. L. Rptr. 19 - Bompastore v. DuBois