Sang Hoa Duong v. Commonwealth

Sang Hoa Duong (defendant) has appealed from a judgment entered by a single justice of this court denying his petition under G. L. c. 211, § 3, for a stay of execution of sentence pending appeal. The case requires us to review the procedural framework for requesting and appealing from the denial or grant of a stay of execution of sentence pending appeal. Because a single justice of the Appeals Court has previously denied the requested stay and because the defendant’s appeal from his convictions is pending in the Appeals Court, we conduct only a preliminary review of our single justice’s…