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PEOPLE v. ECHEVARRIA

6 N.Y.3d 89 (2005)

843 N.E.2d 149

809 N.Y.S.2d 509

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. EDWIN ECHEVARRIA, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 22, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City (Joseph M. Nursey and Richard M. Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York City (Susan Axelrod and Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges G.B. SMITH, CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ and R.S. SMITH concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENBLATT, J.

Defendant claims that the jury's verdict finding him guilty of murder in the first degree must be vacated because the jury had earlier rendered a partial verdict finding him guilty of second degree murder.

While looking for drugs in an Upper Manhattan neighborhood, defendant entered the apartment of the two victims, whom he knew. Using a knife from their kitchen,...

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