Commonwealth v. Dykens

This case is before us following the denial by a Superior Court judge of Kenneth Dykens’s motion to vacate several convictions resulting from his guilty pleas in connection with a February, 2005, arrest for attempted burglary and other offenses. See Mass. R. Crim. P. 30 (a), as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 (2001). Specifically, he seeks to vacate two of his three convictions of attempted unarmed burglary in violation of G. L. *636c. 274, § 6, contending that they are duplicative of his conviction on the third, and thus barred under principles of double jeopardy. He also seeks to vacate his…