PEOPLE v. BONGARZONE-SUARRCY


6 N.Y.3d 787 (2006)

844 N.E.2d 746

811 N.Y.S.2d 292

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOAN BONGARZONE-SUARRCY, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 9, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellate Advocates, New York City (Steven R. Bernhard and Lynn W.L. Fahey of counsel), for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney, Brooklyn (Leonard Joblove and Linda Breen of counsel), for respondent.

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


OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

In 1998, defendant was questioned at the Highland and Kingston State Police barracks in connection with the Brooklyn murder of her husband eight years earlier. Suspicion had fallen on defendant after the suicide of her former lover. In the note he left behind, he explained that he had been the victim of defendant's extortion; she had threatened to harm him if...

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