Commonwealth v. Grant

On December 31, 2001, the defendant filed a motion for a new trial, pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 30 (b), as appearing in 435 Mass. 1501 (2001), in the New Bedford Division of the District Court Department, seeking to withdraw certain admissions to sufficient facts that he had entered into in 1992. A District Court judge denied the motion without a hearing. The defendant filed a motion for reconsideration, which the judge also denied. The defendant appealed, and we transferred the case to this court on our own motion. We now vacate the judge’s order denying the motion for a new trial and…