Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Barry
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 12, 2019No. SJC 08635PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLowy, J.
**389 Shortly after midnight on April 17, 1999, Kevin McCormack and Brian Porreca were part of a group leaving a bar in Malden with plans to continue their night at a club in Boston. They never made it. As the group prepared to leave, Porreca saw two longtime friends, Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill, run up to the vehicle that the group was entering. While Cahill stayed on the passenger side of the vehicle, shooting an Uzi at it, Barry fired a handgun into the back of McCormack's head as he sat in the **390 driver's seat. Porreca and one of the women in their group were also shot, and Porreca…
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