Commonwealth v. Ruiz

The defendant was sentenced, on seven separate offenses, after his guilty pleas were accepted. One sentence imposed a term of incarceration; the other six imposed a term of probation, to run “from and after” the incarcerated sentence. At issue in this appeal is whether a defendant’s probation may be revoked based on noncriminal acts proscribed by the terms *475of probation (in this case, contact with the victim) for another offense where the noncriminal act occurred while the defendant was still incarcerated for the first offense. The Appeals Court concluded that a judge may revoke a “from and…