Legal Opinion

COMMONWEALTH v. DANIEL A. DONALD.

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided July 13, 2022Published

1Opinion of the Court

DONALD, COMMONWEALTH vs., 101 Mass. App. Ct. 383

COMMONWEALTH vs. DANIEL A. DONALD.

101 Mass. App. Ct. 383

March 8, 2022 - July 13, 2022

Court Below: Superior Court, Worcester County

Present: Green, C.J., Englander, & Grant, JJ.

No. 21-P-250.

Controlled Substances. Practice, Criminal, Plea. Evidence, Guilty plea.

A Superior Court judge properly denied a criminal defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty pleas on various drug-related charges, where the plea colloquy set forth a sufficient factual basis, as established in the prosecutor's narrative and the defendant's own admissions, to allow the plea…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
  2. Commonwealth v. Del VerdeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
  3. Commonwealth v. ColantoniMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
  4. Commonwealth v. HartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2014
  5. Commonwealth v. ArmstrongMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2015

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