Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment

QUESTION PRESENTED — Did the Massachusetts Appeals Court deny a defendant due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, when it retroactively applied two ; decisions that abolished the state's previously "expressed" and widely relied upon “common law” rule prohibiting application of the procedural waiver doctrine when addressing a specific type of “structural error, Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451, 461-462 (2001)? ii