ALBANY – A deeply and unusually splintered Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed a Brooklyn homicide conviction in a case highlighting the nuanced differences between intentional and depraved indifference murder.
In People v. Oswaldo Sanchez, 70, the 4-3 majority attempted to draw a clear distinction between the differing mental states required to sustain either an intentional or depraved indifference homicide – and the dissenters said the Court failed miserably in that quest. The case resulted in not one, but three separate written dissents.
