Commonwealth v. Real

The defendant took no appeal from his 1979 convictions by a jury on various indictments stemming from his possession of a shotgun with a barrel *907less than eighteen inches in length. Four years later, however, he brought a motion for a new trial, which the trial judge denied on procedural grounds (see Commonwealth v. Harrington, 379 Mass. 446, 449 [1980]) and, in the alternative, on the substantive grounds, were he to consider them, all for reasons set out in his findings made under Mass.R.Crim.P. 30(b), 378 Mass. 900 (1979). We affirm.

Commonwealth v. Harrington, 379 Mass. at 449, provides that…