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LEASTER v. COMMONWEALTH

385 Mass. 547 (1982)

432 N.E.2d 708

BOBBY JOE LEASTER vs. COMMONWEALTH (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 11, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Robert F. Muse for Bobby Joe Leaster.

Benjamin Hiller for Leonard Lacy.

Lois M. Lewis for George P. McLaughlin.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

In each of these three cases the petitioner, who is serving a life sentence for murder in the first degree, sought postconviction relief for asserted error in his conviction by filing in the Superior Court a motion under Mass. R. Crim. P. 30, 378 Mass. 900 (1979).2 In each case a Superior Court judge denied the motion after hearing. Subsequently each petitioner sought to appeal the Superior Court ruling by leave of a single...

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