COMMONWEALTH v. HYATT


419 Mass. 815 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. DWAYNE HYATT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

April 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol A. Donovan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Robert C. Cosgrove, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Philip G. Cormier, for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

This is the defendant's second appeal following jury verdicts of guilty of aggravated rape and armed robbery. On his first convictions the judge sentenced the defendant in March, 1988, to concurrent terms of from twenty-five to forty years, to commence following service of the sentence that the defendant was then serving on an unrelated matter. In 1991 we reversed the first convictions and remanded the case for a new trial. Commonwealth v. Hyatt...

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