Murray v. Commonwealth

In 1982, the petitioner was convicted on charges of escape and armed robbery. The sentences he received were to be served from and after a sentence that he was then serving in the District of Columbia. See Hines, petitioner, 432 Mass. 1004 (2000). Although the record is not developed on this point, the petitioner represents (and the defendants apparently agree) that he appealed from his sentences to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, and that the Appellate Division eventually dismissed his appeal in 1990. See G. L. c. 278, § 28B (“If the appellate division decides that the original…