IN RE SIMONTON

SJC-12588.

483 Mass. 1020 (2019)

KAROL E. SIMONTON, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

December 11, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was submitted on briefs.

Karol E. Simonton, pro se.

Matthew P. Landry , Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.


Rescript

Karol E. Simonton appeals from a judgment of the county court denying, without a hearing, his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In 1999, Simonton pleaded guilty to rape and other offenses and was sentenced to the State prison. In 2018, he filed his petition, in which he alleged that he was denied a speedy trial, that the indictments were known by the judge to be fatally defective, that the judge failed to examine whether the Superior Court had competent...

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