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MTR OF NEW YORK NEWS (VENTURA)

67 N.Y.2d 472 (1986)

In the Matter of New York News, Inc., et al., Respondents. Mary Ventura et al., Appellants; National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Intervenor-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michele Maxian and Caesar D. Cirigliano for Mary Ventura, appellant.

Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Francis F. Caputo and Leonard Koerner of counsel), for New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, appellant.

Michael B. Mukasey, Emily R. Remes, Laura V. Jones, Neal M. Goldman, Richard N. Winfield, Kevin A. Fisher, Dean Ringel and Ellen Rosen for respondents.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur in Per Curiam opinion.

Per Curiam.

During the evening rush hour on October 22, 1985, at the Times Square subway station in Manhattan, appellant Mary Ventura, in what the police termed "an unprovoked assault", pushed a young woman into the path of an oncoming train, causing serious injury. Held by bystanders, Ventura was arrested and charged with attempted murder and assault in the first degree and remanded to Bellevue Hospital Center for psychiatric...

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