DeMatos v. Commonwealth

The petitioner, Justin DeMatos, appeals from two judgments of a single justice of this court. The first judgment concerns a document that DeMatos filed in the county court entitled a “petition for appeal to [the] Supreme Judicial Court pursuant to [G. L. c. 278, § 28].” The second judgment concerns a petition that DeMatos subsequently filed in the county court pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. The single justice denied both petitions without a hearing. We affirm.

Following a jury trial, DeMatos was convicted in the Superior Court on June 25, 2013, of one count of trafficking in oxycodone in…