Gay

While incarcerated at Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Gardner, in May, 1988, petitioner, David Francis Gay, received formal notification that two detainers1 had been filed against him by the State of California.2 The *472detainers alleged that Gay had committed burglary and a parole violation in California. On May 23, 1989, pursuant to his rights under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (Agreement), to which both Massachusetts and California are parties, see St. 1965, c. 892, and Cal. Penal Code § 1389 (West 1982), Gay requested final disposition of the charges underlying both…