Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Leo
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 30, 1981PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
The defendant’s convictions on two indictments for unnatural sexual intercourse with a child under sixteen years of age (G. L. c. 265, § 23, as appearing in St. 1974, c. 474, § 3) were affirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court on August 21, 1979, in Commonwealth v. Leo, 379 Mass. 34 (1979). On October 9,1979, the defendant, acting pro se, filed a motion for a new trial. That motion was later supplanted by a motion which was filed by his present counsel on November 23, 1979, was entitled “Motion For Release From Unlawful Restraint And For New Trial Pursuant to Rule 30 of the Massachusetts Rules…
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