PEOPLE v. VEGA


3 A.D.3d 239 (2004)

771 N.Y.S.2d 30

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MANUEL VEGA, Appellant.

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

January 27, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart D. Rubin for appellant

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, New York City (Raffaelina Gianfrancesco and Karen Swiger of counsel), for respondent.

NARDELLI, J.P., SULLIVAN, ELLERIN and FRIEDMAN, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

TOM, J.

On August 18, 1999, defendant returned from work and sometime later, according to his statement, discovered his wife strangled to death in a back room of the apartment. The decedent, Johanna Vega, was found wrapped in or lying on two comforters that had been intertwined and wearing only a tank-top tee shirt and a pair of panties. Defendant, a weightlifter, worked as a delivery truck...

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