COMMONWEALTH v. SULLIVAN

SJC-13353.

492 Mass. 36 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOSEPH SULLIVAN (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

May 16, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jared B. Cohen , Assistant Attorney General ( Stephen J. Carley & Dean A. Mazzone , Assistant Attorneys General, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Daniel D. Kelly for Joseph Sullivan.

Edward B. Fogarty for Derrick Gentry-Mitchell.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


The allegations in this case center on an alleged cover-up of an April 2015 altercation between off-duty Springfield police department (SPD) officers and four Black men (victims) near Nathan Bill's Bar & Restaurant in Springfield (Nathan Bill's). The victims were injured, at least one...

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