Lester J. Richard, Jr. v. William F. Callahan, Jr.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Lester J. Richard, Jr., a Massachusetts state prisoner, appeals from a judgment entered March 31, 1983 in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976). The petition challenged, as violative of the due process and double jeopardy clauses of the United States Constitution, consecutive sentences petitioner is serving for second degree murder and armed robbery following his plea of guilty entered in the Superior Court of Hampden County, Massachusetts, on March…