Commonwealth v. Rodgers

The defendant appeals from his conviction of violation of an abuse prevention order, claiming that his motion to dismiss for failure to grant him a speedy trial in accordance with Mass. R. Crim. P. 36 (b), as amended, 422 Mass. 1503 (1996), should have been allowed. In an unpublished memóran*539dum of decision pursuant to its rule 1:28, the Appeals Court affirmed the conviction, concluding that the Commonwealth had met its burden of justifying the delay. We granted the defendant’s application for further appellate review. While we agree that the Commonwealth met its burden of justifying the…