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.