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In 1995, when the West Philly native was 18, the Daily News noted that he had a "penchant" for being accused of murder, after he was acquitted of the crime a second time. That seemed like an understatement later that year after McGriff was accused of a triple homicide.
Now, McGriff, 38, is in jail again, charged with a sixth murder - this time of a girlfriend, Malisha "Lai Lai" Jessie. With so many bodies, three murder cases and no convictions behind him, Jessie's sister is concerned about McGriff's day in court.
Lawyer Jack McMahon, who represented McGriff on all three of his previous murder cases, told the Daily News in 1995 that he instructed McGriff after his second acquittal to get out of Philadelphia and start over somewhere else. McGriff stuck around, though, and before the year was over, he and six other alleged gang members were accused of killing three men near 40th Street and Girard Avenue in what police said was an ongoing battle with the Junior Black Mafia over drug turf.
McGriff and the six other defendants were held with no bail and no trial for years. But they were freed in 2004 after the state Supreme Court found that the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office had violated the "speedy trial rule."
According to accounts in the Daily News and the Inquirer, McGriff was first charged with murder in 1992 and again in 1993. As a juvenile, he was arrested multiple times for drug sales and other crimes.
McGriff, according to those news accounts, cut off his electronic ankle monitor in fall 1995, one day before the triple homicide in West Philly.
In 1995, when the West Philly native was 18, the Daily News noted that he had a "penchant" for being accused of murder, after he was acquitted of the crime a second time. That seemed like an understatement later that year after McGriff was accused of a triple homicide.
Now, McGriff, 38, is in jail again, charged with a sixth murder - this time of a girlfriend, Malisha "Lai Lai" Jessie. With so many bodies, three murder cases and no convictions behind him, Jessie's sister is concerned about McGriff's day in court.
Lawyer Jack McMahon, who represented McGriff on all three of his previous murder cases, told the Daily News in 1995 that he instructed McGriff after his second acquittal to get out of Philadelphia and start over somewhere else. McGriff stuck around, though, and before the year was over, he and six other alleged gang members were accused of killing three men near 40th Street and Girard Avenue in what police said was an ongoing battle with the Junior Black Mafia over drug turf.
McGriff and the six other defendants were held with no bail and no trial for years. But they were freed in 2004 after the state Supreme Court found that the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office had violated the "speedy trial rule."
According to accounts in the Daily News and the Inquirer, McGriff was first charged with murder in 1992 and again in 1993. As a juvenile, he was arrested multiple times for drug sales and other crimes.
McGriff, according to those news accounts, cut off his electronic ankle monitor in fall 1995, one day before the triple homicide in West Philly.
