Owens v. Commonwealth

The petitioner, Julius Owens, filed a pro se petition in the county court seeking interlocutory review of the denial of his motion to dismiss indictments against him in an underlying criminal case. He claimed that the indictments should have been dismissed on speedy trial ground. A single justice denied relief, and the petitioner appeals, claiming that the single justice abused his discretion in denying the petition, pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. We affirm.

The denial of a motion to dismiss in a criminal case cannot be appealed by a defendant as a matter of right until after trial. Nor is…