Case Name: Commonwealth vs. Rene S. Butts (and a companion case)
Court: Massachusetts Appeals Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1986-03-10
Citations: 21 Mass. App. Ct. 972
Docket Number: 
Parties: Commonwealth vs. Rene S. Butts (and a companion case ).
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Appeals Court Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 972–972

Head Matter:
Commonwealth vs. Rene S. Butts (and a companion case ).
March 10, 1986.
Andrew Silverman, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Thomas L. Preziosi.
Patrick J. Riley, for Rene S. Butts, submitted a brief.
Kevin M. Burke, District Attorney, & Dyanne Klein Polatin, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth, submitted a brief.
Commonwealth vs. Thomas L. Preziosi.

Opinion:
The record fails to disclose any "excusable neglect" (Mass.R.A.P. 4[c], 378 Mass. 929 [1979]) for either defendant's not filing a timely notice of appeal (see Fergione v. Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical Sch. Dist., 396 Mass. 1015, 1016 [1986]), but we see no point in remanding for exploration of that question because we are not persuaded that either defendant was harmed by any error that may have been committed.
Appeals dismissed.