Title: Ardaneh v. Commonwealth

State: massachusetts

Issuer: Massachusetts Supreme Court

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SJC-13104 
 
HAMID REZA ARDANEH  vs.  COMMONWEALTH.1 
 
 
July 1, 2021. 
 
 
Supreme Judicial Court, Superintendence of inferior courts. 
 
 
 
The petitioner, Hamid Reza Ardaneh, filed papers in the 
county court that included what appears to be a request for 
relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3.  The papers also included, 
among other things, copies of documents directed to at least two 
different departments of the Trial Court as well as the United 
States Supreme Court, all of which also seem to be seeking some 
sort of unspecified relief.  It is not clear whether those 
particular papers were also filed in the other courts.  Although 
Ardaneh asked this court to exercise its general superintendence 
power pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3, he did not identify, in any 
discernible way, the specific relief sought.  On the basis that 
it was unclear what relief Ardaneh was seeking, the single 
justice denied the petition. 
 
 
Ardaneh fares no better in his appeal to this court.  He 
has filed what appears to be intended as a memorandum and 
appendix pursuant to S.J.C. Rule 2:21, as amended, 434 Mass. 
1301 (2001), but it is not clear that the rule applies (because 
it is not clear that he is challenging any interlocutory ruling 
of a trial court).  Regardless of whether rule 2:21 applies, 
however, what is clear is that Ardaneh is not entitled to relief 
on this record.  As he has done before, he appears to be 
challenging the trial court proceedings generally and various 
unspecified rulings therein.  See Ardaneh v. Commonwealth, 486 
 
1 Certain individuals associated with Bridgewater State 
Hospital; certain individuals associated with the trial court; 
and others. 
2 
 
Mass. 1005, 1005-1006 (2020).  As we stated in his earlier case, 
to the extent that Ardaneh seeks relief "from what he 
perceive[s] to be general injustices done to or imposed on him" 
in the trial court, "[h]is claims [do] not present a situation 
warranting extraordinary superintendence relief directly from 
this court."  Id. at 1006.  If anything about Ardaneh's 
circumstances has changed since the time of his previous appeal, 
those changes are not evidenced in the record before us. 
 
 
The single justice did not err or abuse his discretion in 
denying relief. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Judgment affirmed. 
 
 
 
The case was submitted on the papers filed, accompanied by 
a memorandum of law. 
 
Hamid Reza Ardaneh, pro se.