KASS, J.
Two years elapsed before the defendant, Buckley, moved for a new trial after conviction by a jury of rape and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. That time interval engenders an initial skepticism about the defendant's argument, made in his brief, that his "trial was a mockery of justice" which deprived "the defendant of the serious attention his fate deserved and [permitted] extraneous influences to impinge fatally upon the jury's deliberative...
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