Kines v. Clerk of the Superior Court for Criminal Business

In May of 2002, a judge in the Superior Court denied Rasheed’s most recent amended motion for a new trial pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. R 30, as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 (2001). Rasheed attempted to appeal from that denial to the Appeals Court, but his notice of appeal was untimely. He then filed a motion in the Appeals Court, requesting leave to file a late notice of appeal pursuant to Mass. R. A. R 14 (b), as amended, 378 Mass. 939 (1979). A single justice of the Appeals Court denied the motion. Instead of appealing from that decision to a panel of the Appeals Court, Rasheed filed two…