Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Tran
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 14, 2011PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, 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 for the defendants, Siny Van Tran (Tran) and Nam The Tham (Tham), but by that time they had already left the United States. In 1999, Tran was arrested in China. Tham was arrested the…
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