Thomas Oses v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

This is an appeal from the grant of writ of habeas corpus by the district court finding that petitioner’s 1977 convictions for armed assault and kidnapping in the Superior Court of Massachusetts were unconstitutional. Petitioner Thomas Oses claimed in his petition that his Sixth Amendment right of self-representation had been constitutionally impaired through various errors during his trial in the Massachusetts Superior Court. ■ Oses further claimed that his Fifth Amendment due process rights were violated when the trial court judge improperly suggested that he would testify when he had no…