New York Court of Appeals March 28, 1996 (People v. Angelo)

OPINION OF THE COURT

Levine, J.

Defendant was charged with multiple counts of second degree murder (depraved indifference murder) and assault in connection with the unauthorized injection of seven patients with a neuromuscular blocking agent at the hospital at which

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he was employed as a nurse, resulting in the deaths of six of them from respiratory failure.