Commonwealth v. White

The defendant, Steven White, seeks to reinstate his appeal from the denial of his motion for a new trial that was *259dismissed by the Appeals Court as having been untimely filed. The defendant’s counsel mailed the notice of appeal twenty-seven days after the denial of his motion. Because of various intervening holidays, the notice was not entered on the docket in the Superior Court until thirty-six days after the entry of the denial. No motion to enlarge the time to file the notice of appeal was filed until twenty-two months after the denial, when the defendant was represented by new counsel.…