Barry v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• single justice reserved and reported the case; court not required to decide whether case properly before it under G. L. c. 211, § 3
• appellate court may “affirm a ruling below on a ground not relied upon by the judge”
• appellate court is “in as good a position as the judge below to determine whether the time limits imposed by the rule have run”
• the filing of a motion to dismiss under rule 36 “tolls the running of the time in which a defendant must be tried”
• “in view of the public interest involved ... we express our opinion on the issues that have been argued,” without deciding whether case is properly before us
• “When a defendant has agreed to a continuance, or has not entered an objection to delay, he will be held to have acquiesced in the delay”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).