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Commonwealth v. Butts

Appeals Court of Massachusetts
Mar 10, 1986
21 Mass. App. Ct. 972 (Mass. App. Ct. 1986)

Opinion

March 10, 1986.

Practice, Criminal, Appeal.

Andrew Silverman, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Thomas L. Preziosi.

Patrick J. Riley, for Rene S. Butts, submitted a brief.

Kevin M. Burke, District Attorney, Dyanne Klein Polatin, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth, submitted a brief.



The record fails to disclose any "excusable neglect" (Mass.R.A.P. 4[c], 378 Mass. 929) for either defendant's not filing a timely notice of appeal (see Fergione v. Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical Sch. Dist., 396 Mass. 1015, 1016 [1986]), but we see no point in remanding for exploration of that question because we are not persuaded that either defendant was harmed by any error that may have been committed.

Appeals dismissed.


Summaries of

Commonwealth v. Butts

Appeals Court of Massachusetts
Mar 10, 1986
21 Mass. App. Ct. 972 (Mass. App. Ct. 1986)
Case details for

Commonwealth v. Butts

Case Details

Full title:COMMONWEALTH vs. RENE S. BUTTS (and a companion case )

Court:Appeals Court of Massachusetts

Date published: Mar 10, 1986

Citations

21 Mass. App. Ct. 972 (Mass. App. Ct. 1986)
489 N.E.2d 1017

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