PEOPLE v. ROSSAKIS


256 A.D.2d 366 (1998)

681 N.Y.S.2d 350

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NIKI ROSSAKIS, Appellant.

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

Decided December 7, 1998.


Ordered that the judgment is modified, as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by reducing the sentence imposed upon the defendant's conviction of murder in the second degree from 23 years to life imprisonment to 15 years to life imprisonment; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant shot and killed her husband as he lay in bed. Although she initially denied any knowledge of what had occurred, she later confessed to the shooting. At trial...

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