Commonwealth v. Tolassi

SPAETH, Judge:

These appeals are from orders dismissing appellants’ petitions to vacate their sentences as illegal. We affirm.

Appellants were tried together in 1974 on charges arising from a labor dispute. Eight of them were convicted of rioting, malicious destruction of fences, and conspiracy; the remaining three—appellants Tolassi, Dolinski, and Michael O’Brien—were convicted of rioting and conspiracy but acquitted of malicious destruction of fences. The eight were each sentenced as follows: for rioting, one to three years imprisonment, $1,000 fine, and one-eleventh of the costs of…