People v. Acevedo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Catterson, J.
The defendant was charged with two counts of second-degree (intentional and depraved indifference) murder in the bludgeoning death of Stacy Freund, an acquaintance for whom he had bought heroin just before her death on April 1, 2001. Police found Freund in her West 137th Street apartment lying face down on a mattress soaked in blood. A lead directed detectives to the defendant whom they located after his arrest on a parole *170violation, and who agreed to talk to the detectives when they told him he was not a suspect in the murder at that time.
In a first oral…
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