PEOPLE v. STEINER


30 N.Y.2d 762 (1972)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Allen Ralph Steiner, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 3, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Anolik and Abraham H. Brodsky for appellant.

Thomas J. Mackell, District Attorney (Vincent F. Nicolosi and Kenneth Ross Wolfe of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BERGAN, BREITEL, JASEN and GIBSON concur in opinion Per Curiam; Judge BURKE dissents and votes to affirm; Judge SCILEPPI taking no part.


Per Curiam.

The defendant, tried upon an indictment charging murder of his wife by strangulation, offered medical evidence of her death by asphyxia due to convulsions following drug overdose. Two writings in the form of diary entries in the decedent's handwriting and indicating the husband's involvement with an employee in an extramarital affair were received in evidence when offered by the prosecutor as "most important...

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