Legal Opinion
People v. De Tore
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 8, 1974PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Chief Judge Breitel.
Defendants De Tore and Wedra were convicted, after a jury trial, for the murder of De Tore’s wife. Bach received a sentence from 25 years to life imprisonment. They appeál. De Tore, involved with another woman, allegedly arranged through an intermediary to pay $9,000 for the killing. Wedra, unknown to De Tore, allegedly was the hired killer.
The principal issue is the sufficiency of the evidence against the killer Wedra. Also urged as error was the failure of the prosecutor to produce the intermediary, one Gasperino, -after describing in his opening statement how Gasperino…
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