Commonwealth v. Carrillo

Article 3(a) of the interstate Agreement on Detainers, adopted in this Commonwealth by St. 1965, c. 892, § 1, provides that a prisoner in another State, who requests final disposition of an untried indictment, information or complaint in Massachusetts, on the basis of which a detainer has been lodged against him, “shall be brought to trial within one hundred eighty days after he shall have caused to be delivered to the prosecuting officer and the appropriate court” written notice of his place of confinement and his request for disposition. Here the defendant mailed his request for disposition…