Budnick v. Palmer Division of District Court Department

The petitioner, Thomas P. Budnick, filed a petition in the county court seeking an “investigation” as to why “seven hundred and eighty-eight (788) audio/video Show Cause applications” he filed in the Palmer Division of the District Court Department were denied without a hearing over a twenty-eight year period. A single justice considered the petition pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3, and denied relief without a hearing. We affirm.

It was the petitioner’s burden to create a record establishing entitlement to relief, “not merely to allege but to demonstrate, i.e., to provide copies of the lower…