Cepulonis v. Commonwealth

The petitioner appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying his petition for relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. We affirm.

In 1976, the petitioner was convicted of illegal possession of a machine gun, among other offenses, in connection with a bank robbery. He was sentenced to serve from forty to fifty years in prison. Several years later, after this court twice denied him relief from his conviction, see Cepulonis v. Commonwealth, 384 Mass. 495 (1981); Commonwealth v. Cepulonis, 374 Mass. 487 (1978), he claimed for the first time, in a postconviction motion in the…