Commonwealth v. Ruiz

Two probationary conditions in the order of the sentencing judge directed that the defendant was to have no contact with the victim, his former domestic partner. However, it is argued in this appeal that, because the three-year probation period was to flow from and after the defendant’s five and one-half year term of imprisonment for his rape of the victim, revocation of probation because of a violation of the no contact probationary orders could not be predicated upon the defendant’s acts while he was serving his prison term precedent to the ensuing probationary term. In essence, the…