Facts: The
petitioner, Forknall, filed her petition in the county court after a judge in
the District Court denied her motion to dismiss a complaint charging her with
leaving the scene of property damage and operating a motor vehicle with a
suspended license. The single justice denied the petition.
Issue:
Whether this case presents the type of exceptional circumstances that warrant
the exercise of this court's extraordinary power of general superintendence.
No. The petitioner’s argument was a claim that review of any
adverse decision in the trial court cannot adequately be obtained on appeal
because she “has various diagnosed mental disorders [that would leave her] completely
emotionally drained [and unable to] be rational throughout ordinary appellate
proceedings....”, but since she did not raise this claim before the single
justice, the court did not need to consider it. (CH)
