PEOPLE v. CRUCIANI


36 N.Y.2d 304 (1975)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Kenneth J. Cruciani, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley P. Amelkin for appellant.

Henry G. Wenzel, III, District Attorney (David F. Jordan of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and COOKE concur.


FUCHSBERG J.

On this appeal from a conviction of manslaughter in the second degree, the proof showing, among other things, that defendant Cruciani injected Margaret Heur with heroin (1) when, in his own words, she was already "completely bombed out on downs" (depressants like morphine into which heroin is rapidly converted by the body's metabolic processes), (2) at a time when she had lost the capacity to "walk...

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