Legal Opinion
George St. Helen v. Daniel A. Senkowski
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 6, 2004No. Docket 03-2777PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Per curiam
BACKGROUND
We presume awareness of the background of this case and recite only the following details relevant to disposing of the appeal before us. Claiming that he was playing a joke on his friend, Rosmarie Taylor, George St. Helen placed a revolver loaded with one bullet on Taylor’s buttocks and pulled the trigger twice. The bullet was in the second chamber of the revolver, and, on the second trigger-pull, the gun fired, injuring Taylor. Taylor later died in the hospital from surgery-related complications.
On July 23, 1998, after a jury trial, St. Helen was convicted in Westchester County of…
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