Dowd v. Town of Dedham

The petitioner, Thomas F. Dowd, filed a document entitled “Pro Se Appellant’s Verified Emergency Appeal," which a single justice of this court treated as a G. L. c. 211, § 3, petition and denied without a hearing. On appeal, the *1008petitioner asks tins court to determine that a town official violated G. L. c. 56, § 12, and to order the Attorney General to “convene” a grand jury to seek an indictment against the official for violation of that statute. Not only was this relief not requested in the petition filed with the single justice, see Bloise v. Bloise, 437 Mass. 1010, 1010 (2002), but the…