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Commonwealth v. Pingaro

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided December 15, 1997No. 96-P-920PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, J.

Joseph Pingaro has appealed from a Superior Court judge’s order denying his October, 1994, motion to withdraw guilty pleas he offered, and on which he was convicted and sentenced, in March, 1979. Pingaro filed this motion, over fifteen years after his guilty pleas, only after he pleaded guilty in 1993, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to charges of extortion, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, and perjury (five counts), following which he received an enhanced Federal sentence based, in part, upon *42his 1979 State convictions.1 Because no transcript…

2Cases cited56 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Parke v. RaleySupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. Commonwealth v. GraceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
  4. Commonwealth v. ToneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
  5. Commonwealth v. StewartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981

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3Cited by36 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LopezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
  2. Commonwealth v. FurrMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2009
  3. Commonwealth v. WheelerMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2001
  4. Commonwealth v. RzepphiewskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
  5. Commonwealth v. SylvainMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016

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