PEOPLE v. HARRIS


266 A.D.2d 564 (1999)

699 N.Y.S.2d 115

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. LYDELL HARRIS, Appellant.

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

Decided November 29, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant killed the victim with a machete after the victim made a crude remark about the defendant's girlfriend. With his girlfriend's help, the defendant decapitated and dismembered the body and put the parts in garbage bags, which he discarded in the ocean near Coney Island. When the defendant confessed to his mother, his godmother, the police, and the District Attorney, he claimed that the stabbing was either accidental...

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