Case Name: Louis Siano vs. Commonwealth
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1986-11-10
Citations: 398 Mass. 1007
Docket Number: 
Parties: Louis Siano vs. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 398
Pages: 1007–1007

Head Matter:
Louis Siano vs. Commonwealth.
Supreme Judicial Court,
Superintendence of inferior courts.
November 10, 1986.
John Cavicchi for the plaintiff.
John T. McDonough, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Opinion:
We affirm the single justice's denial of relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3 (1984 ed.), because that statute is properly invocable only where a person demonstrates "both a substantial claim of violation of his substantive rights and irremediable error, such that he cannot be placed in statu quo in the regular course of appeal." Morrissette v. Commonwealth, 380 Mass. 197, 198 (1980). Here, Siano could have appealed from the denial of his motion for new trial but failed to do so. See Dunbrack v. Commonwealth, ante 502, 504 (1986).
Judgment affirmed.