PEOPLE v. BETTERS


41 A.D.3d 1040 (2007)

838 N.Y.S.2d 254

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. RICHARD J. BETTERS, Appellant.

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

Decided June 21, 2007.


Mugglin, J.

While eating dinner with their two-year-old child, defendant and his paramour (hereinafter the victim) became embroiled in a heated argument. After the victim left the table and smashed her plate in the kitchen sink, defendant threw a fork and then a steak knife at her. Although the child was seated close to defendant, neither object struck her. The fork missed the victim, but the steak knife struck her and caused a deep laceration in her quadriceps. The...

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