People v. Wood

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The defendant was convicted of murdering a female acquaintance during the early morning hours of March 8, 1979. The two had met in a bar earlier in the night and returned to the victim’s apartment. After consensual sexual relations defendant struck the victim on the head repeatedly with a heavy glass bottle filled with pennies and then strangled her to death with a brassiere. At trial, the defendant asserted the affirmative defense of extreme emotional disturbance, admitting that he had killed the victim but…