Bolton v. Commonwealth

A single justice of this court denied the plaintiff’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking an order that the Appeals Court accept the plaintiff’s motion to dismiss or to grant appropriate relief. The clerk of that court had returned the plaintiff’s motion as procedurally inappropriate. The plaintiff had been convicted of two counts of rape by means of unnatural sexual intercourse. It appears that the motion to the Appeals Court challenged the admission of certain evidence at trial that had not been presented to the grand jury. The plaintiff also objected to portions of the charge to the…