Commonwealth v. Bland

Following his convictions, in 1992, of several crimes relating to his robbing elderly persons after breaking and entering their dwellings, the defendant filed a timely motion to revoke and revise his sentences.1 Some six years later,2 the trial *667judge conducted a hearing and denied that motion, issuing a comprehensive memorandum in which he addressed and rejected the grounds upon which the defendant relied in seeking to reduce his base prison sentence of thirty to forty years. In addition the judge set forth his reasons for the sentence, “certainly the longest that [he had] imposed on similar…