People v. Hawker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Barasch, J.), rendered May 25, 1993, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
On the night of August 23, 1992, the defendant stabbed his wife to death in their apartment as family members, including their three children, attempted to stop him. At the trial, the *500defendant asserted a claim of diminished capacity, maintaining that he was intoxicated at the time (see, Penal Law § 15.25), as well as the defense of justification, both of…
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