Legal Opinion
Mtr of New York News (Ventura)
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 10, 1986PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
During the evening rush hour on October 22, 1985, at the Times Square subway station in Manhattan, appellant Mary Ventura, in what the police termed "an unprovoked assault”, pushed a young woman into the path of an oncoming train, causing serious injury. Held by bystanders, Ventura was arrested and charged with attempted murder and assault in the first degree and remanded to Bellevue Hospital Center for psychiatric observation. These events were immediately reported in the press.
In the ensuing days, the newspapers reported that in July 1985 Ventura had been a psychiatric…
3Cited by6 opinions
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