Commonwealth v. Berrios

We granted the Commonwealth’s application for further appellate review to determine whether the defendant, who entered a guilty plea to being an accessory before the fact to murder in the second degree (among other charges), was properly granted a new trial. The charges were based on the defendant’s involvement in a gang-related shooting that occurred in Springfield on February 28, 1995, in which one person was killed and three others wounded. The Superior Court judge, who accepted the defendant’s guilty pleas, allowed the defendant’s motion to withdraw the pleas and for a new trial on the…