Case Title: Alvarez v. Commonwealth

Citation: 

Docket Number: SJC-12443

State: massachusetts

Court: Massachusetts Supreme Court

Date: 2018-08-22T00:00:00Z

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SJC-12443 
 
ANGEL LUIS ALVAREZ  vs.  COMMONWEALTH. 
 
 
August 22, 2018. 
 
 
Moot Question.  Practice, Civil, Moot case. 
 
 
 
The defendant, Angel Alvarez, appeals from the order 
denying his motion for a stay of execution of his sentence by a 
single justice of the county court.  We dismiss the appeal as 
moot. 
 
 
A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty on 
indictments charging three counts of rape of a child and one 
count of indecent assault and battery upon a child in November, 
2016.  The defendant timely appealed, and this court granted 
direct appellate review on September 14, 2017.  On September 20, 
2017, the defendant filed a motion in the Superior Court to stay 
execution of his sentence, which the judge denied.  The 
defendant then re-filed his motion to stay execution of his 
sentence as part of his pending appeal before this court.  On 
November 21, 2017, a single justice of this court denied the 
defendant's motion to stay execution of his sentence without a 
hearing, and this appeal followed. 
 
 
Because our decision in Commonwealth v. Alvarez, 480 Mass.     
(2018), vacates the defendant's convictions and remands the case 
to the Superior Court for a new trial, the defendant's appeal 
from the order denying the motion to stay execution of the 
sentence is dismissed as moot.  The issue of pretrial release 
will be for the trial judge to determine. 
 
So ordered. 
 
 
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David Rassoul Rangaviz, Committee for Public Counsel 
Services, for the defendant. 
 
Nathaniel R. Beaudoin, Assistant District Attorney, for the 
Commonwealth.