Commonwealth v. Roucoulet

On December 3, 1990, the defendant, Arthur Roucoulet, Jr., entered a guilty plea in the Superior Court to an indictment charging him with trafficking in cocaine, G. L. c. 94C, § 32E (1990 ed.), after which he was sentenced to a term of from five to nine years. On the same day, the defendant was tried, jury-waived, before the same Superior Court judge who had accepted this guilty plea on an additional indictment brought pursuant to G. L. c. 94C, § 32J, as inserted by St. 1989, c. 227, § 2, the so-called school zone statute. That indictment charged a violation of “section 32A and section 32E,…