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COMMONWEALTH v. SINY VAN TRAN.

SJC-10425.

460 Mass. 535 (2011)

COMMONWEALTH v. SINY VAN TRAN. (and thirteen companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 14, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Shaw, Jr. , for Nam The Tham.

Janet H. Pumphrey for Siny Van Tran.

David D. McGowan , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, & DUFFLY, JJ.

CORDY, J.

In the early morning hours of January 12, 1991, six men were shot execution-style in the basement of an illegal gambling parlor in the Chinatown section of Boston. Five of those men — Man Cheung, Van Tran,2 Chung Wah Son, David Quang Lam, and Cuong Khand Luu — died from gunshot wounds to the head. A sixth man, Pak Wing Lee, survived and testified at the trial.

After the shootings, arrest warrants were issued...

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