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PEOPLE v. DAVIS

226 A.D.2d 125 (1996)

640 N.Y.S.2d 53

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Samuel Davis, Appellant

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

April 2, 1996

After threatening to kill his wife in numerous letters sent from prison, defendant shot her to death in front of their six-year old son. The threatening letters were properly admitted into evidence since the marital privilege is not "designed to forbid inquiry into the personal wrongs committed by one spouse against the other, or * * * intended to label confidential a communication aimed at destroying the marital relation" (Poppe...

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