PEOPLE v. MELENDEZ


174 A.D.2d 479 (1991)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Jorge L. Melendez, Appellant

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

June 18, 1991


Defendant, who had resided in the same apartment with his ultimate victims, was convicted of killing Luis Ayala, and raping Ayala's young common-law wife. On January 7, 1985, following a bitter argument the previous day and after Ayala left for work, defendant announced to the wife his intention to kill her husband. Defendant then took the wife into the bedroom and, after raping her, tied her up, gagged her mouth and locked her...

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