Commonwealth v. Melo

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing allowance of motion to correct sentence where defendant \should have sought a declaratory judgment to challenge the DOC's calculation of his sentence\
• rule 42 \provides a procedure to correct clerical errors in court judgments or records of an otherwise legal 4 sentence imposed by a judge\
• no clerical error involved where defendant \did not claim that any documents or records of the court were in error\
• defendant must \use either habeas corpus or declaratory judgment procedures to challenge the DOC's calculation of a sentence\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Commonwealth v. Proulx
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-08-16

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hennessy v. SUPERINTENDENT, MASS. CORRECTIONAL INST.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-23· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Morasse
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-02-21· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Layne
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1985-10-04· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Layne
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-10-13· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Luna
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1998-12-31· cited 5×
• Cordeiro v. Commissioner of Correction
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1994-12-08· cited 3×