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- Title: People State New York v. Murray A. Palmer
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 30, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
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[33 A.D.2d 647 Page 647] Memorandum: In October, 1965 appellant was sentenced as a first offender upon his plea of guilty to manslaughter, first
degree, to a term of 10 to 20 years -- the maximum permissible sentence (former Penal Law, 1051). The operative facts were
that in April, 1965 appellant shot and killed his wife following a quarrel. The record before us discloses a sordid story
of the marital infidelity of the wife extending over a period of years. On the night of the crime defendant, who worked nights,
returned home unexpectedly about midnight and found his two children (4 and 2 years of age) in the custody of a baby sitter.
About four in the morning the wife arrived home in the car of another man and the quarrel ensued. At the time appellant appears
to have been a decent, hard working person who was attending college during the days and making every effort to maintain his
family life which was rapidly being eroded by the unfaithful wife. A chaplain at the institution where appellant is now confined
expresses the opinion that defendant is a person of integrity and self honesty and that the purpose of rehabilitation envisioned
at the time of sentence [33 A.D.2d 647 Page 648]
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