After attending a party more than 30 years ago, a Massachusetts man was found guilty of the murder of two men who had been killed by more than a dozen gunshots.
But Michael Payne, 52, continues to claim his innocence. And earlier this year, for the first time, he saw a possible path to freedom through a new state law allowing him to seek parole.
On June 21, 1995, Payne was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and unlawfully carrying a firearm in Suffolk Superior Court. He was sentenced to two concurrent life terms without the possibility of parole for his murder convictions…