Commonwealth v. Yancey

After having been released on bail on cases lodged in Middlesex Superior Court and the Framingham and Roxbury District Courts, the defendant committed and was arrested on several drug offenses. Upon accepting his plea of guilty to one of the latter,1 a Superior Court judge imposed a sentence for that crime which was to commence “from and after” the sentence previously imposed for one of the crimes for which he was on release.2 The judge imposed the “from and after” sentence pursuant to G. L. c. 279, § 8B, as appearing in St. 1994, c. 68, § 8, which states: “If a defendant on release subject…