Restucci v. Appeals Court

William Restucci appeals from an order of a single justice of this court denying, without a hearing, relief in the nature of mandamus. Restucci sought *1032an order from the single justice compelling the Appeals Court to allow a motion for discovery, pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. R 30 (c) (4), 378 Mass. 900 (1979), that he had filed in the first instance in the Appeals Court in an appeal then pending before that court from a Superior Court judge’s denial of his motion for a new trial (to withdraw his guilty plea). A single justice of the Appeals Court previously had denied the discovery motion. In…