Miranda v. Commonwealth

On May 15, 1976, the petitioner was found guilty by a judge of the Superior Court in Barnstable County of two counts of rape and one count of sodomy. Before trial on May 13, 1976, the petitioner signed a form waiving his right to a trial by jury on these charges. He was sentenced on May 15, 1976, to concurrent terms of fifteen to twenty years and seven to ten years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, to be served from and after a sentence which he was already serving. No appeal of the conviction was taken.

On July 3, 1980, the petitioner’s pro se “petition for leave to…