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PEOPLE v. HARRIS

84 A.D.2d 63 (1981)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jean S. Harris, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 30, 1981

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel Martin Aurnou, Victor G. Grossman, Herald Price Fahringer and Elaine G. Brown for appellant (one brief filed).

Carl A. Vergari, District Attorney (Anthony Joseph Servino, Gerald D. Reilly and Richard E. Weill of counsel), for respondent.

HOPKINS, TITONE, WEINSTEIN and BRACKEN, JJ., concur.

MOLLEN, P. J.

This appeal arises out of the homicide of Dr. Herman Tarnower, a noted Westchester cardiologist and proponent of the so-called Scarsdale Diet. His convicted slayer, defendant Jean Harris, was the divorced headmistress of the Madeira School in Virginia. She had been Tarnower's companion and paramour for over 13 years.

The prosecution's theory was that Mrs. Harris, desperately unhappy over...

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