Case Name: Commonwealth vs. Frederick Sheffield
Court: Massachusetts Appeals Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1980-01-29
Citations: 9 Mass. App. Ct. 836
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth vs. Frederick Sheffield.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Appeals Court Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 836–836

Head Matter:
Commonwealth vs. Frederick Sheffield.
January 29, 1980.
The case was submitted on briefs.
Robert L. Sheketoff for the defendant.
William D. Delahunt, District Attorney, Charles J. Hely & Sydney Hanlon, Assistant District Attorneys, for the Commonwealth.

Opinion:
The appeal is from the order of a single justice denying the relief sought by the defendant under G. L. c. 279, § 4 (as most recently amended by St. 1979, c. 344, § 49), and Mass.R.Crim.P. 31(a), 378 Mass. 902 (1979). A perusal of the record before the single justice, of his order and of the twenty-seven lines of argument in the defendant's brief on appeal leaves us unpersuaded that the single justice erred in concluding that "the [defendant] has not demonstrated a reasonable likelihood of success on appeal as that standard is defined in Commonwealth v. Levin, 7 Mass. App. Ct. 501, 503 (1979), and Commonwealth v. Allen, 378 Mass. 489,499 (1979), so as to warrant a stay."
Order affirmed