Pridgett v. Commissioner of Correction

Prior to filing the present petition, the petitioner filed a habeas corpus petition in the Superior Court. In the proceeding on that petition, the petitioner advanced substantially the same arguments and sought the same or similar relief as before this court. Indeed, the gravamen of the present petition is that the Superior Court judge erred in dismissing the petition that the petitioner filed in that court.2 See Hicks v. Commissioner of Correction, 425 Mass. 1014, 1015 (1997) (G. L. c. 211, § 3, petition properly denied where “the relief sought by the petitioner could have been obtained in…