Commonwealth v. Pike

Nineteen months following his conviction by a jury for reckless assault and battery of his three month old son, the defendant moved pro se for a new trial on the ground that he *758had received ineffective assistance of counsel at his trial. The trial judge denied the motion, citing, among other reasons, the defendant’s waiver of his direct appeal of the conviction as part of a plea agreement involving charges of abuse of a different child.1 Thereafter, with the assistance of new counsel, the defendant filed a second motion for new trial, in which he included an additional claim that he had…