Commonwealth v. Mack

In December, 1993, a Suffolk County jury convicted the defendant, Keyma Mack, of premeditated murder in the first degree.1 Testimony came from various police *289officers and investigators, as well as four eyewitnesses to the events surrounding the homicide. On the evidence presented, the jmy could have found the following: On March 23, 1992, the defendant and a friend arrived outside a row of stores at the intersection of Fuller and Washington Streets in the Dorchester section of Boston. The victim, Christopher Pires, was standing outside the stores with a group of people. Pires approached the…