Legal Opinion

Coviello v. Massachusetts

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided December 21, 1981No. Civ. A. No. 80-1177-CPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CAFFREY, Chief Judge.

The petitioner, Stephen L. Coviello, is an inmate at the (Massachusetts) Southeastern Correctional Center-Fort in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. In November of 1977, the petitioner was convicted by a jury of two counts of rape and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of seven to ten years. An appeal was taken to the Massachusetts Appeals Court which reversed the two convictions and set aside the jury verdicts. Commonwealth v. Coviello, 7 Mass.App. 21, 384 N.E.2d 1265 (1979). The Commonwealth then obtained further appellate review before the Supreme…

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