Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York July 18, 2012 (People v. Capela)

On October 7, 2002, emergency personnel, responding to a telephone call to the 911 emergency number, went to the defendant’s apartment. In the defendant’s bedroom, they found the body of the defendant’s wife, which contained many stab wounds. A bloody knife was on the bed. The defendant, who was sitting on a chair in another room, was staring straight ahead at the open front door.