PEOPLE v. WESTERGARD


69 N.Y.2d 642 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Scott W. Westergard, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Steinberg for appellant.

William V. Grady, District Attorney (Bridget Rahilly Steller and Joan H. McCarthy of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant, charged with burglaries of several Poughkeepsie businesses in the early morning of January 24, 1983, at trial contended that his chronic alcoholism and drug abuse constituted a disease or serious mental disorder short of insanity that relieved him of liability for those crimes. This defense was supported by his own testimony, as well as...

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