PEOPLE v. DAWSON


173 A.D.2d 262 (1991)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Thaddeus Dawson, Appellant

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

May 14, 1991


The charges against defendant arose from his stabbing of Roberto Sealey during an argument outside of Grand Central Terminal, where Sealey worked as a shoeshiner. Defendant testified that in the fifteen-minute period immediately preceding the stabbing he had drunk "forty ounces of a boilermaker", which he described as a mixture of Bacardi rum and beer, and that he was "high" when the incident occurred. We think that, notwithstanding the absence of testimony regarding objective...

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