People v. Dawson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Casey, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Clinton County (Goldman, J.), rendered April 30, 1984, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of murder in the second degree.
Defendant, an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility, was convicted as the result of killing a fellow inmate on May 12, 1983 at approximately 2:55 p.m. The cause of the victim’s death was an internal hemorrhage resulting from a stab wound in his jugular vein inflicted by a 10- to 11-inch homemade knife, called a shank. The proof of defendant’s perpetration of the crime is overwhelming, as revealed by…
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