People v. Casassa

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1980-04-01

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*672 OPINION OF THE COURT Jasen, J. The significant issue on this appeal is whether the defendant, in a murder prosecution, established the affirmative defense of "extreme emotional disturbance” which would have reduced the crime to manslaughter in the first degree. On February 28, 1977, Victoria Lo Consolo was brutally murdered. Def…

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