People v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The record establishes that defendant approached the two victims and shot the first victim [Preston Mitchum] in the chest, which eventually caused the death of that victim, and defendant then shot the second victim [Christoper Jones, who suffered non-fatal wounds]. The first victim ran after being shot, but defendant did not follow him. Instead, defendant approached the second victim, stood over him, and continued to shoot him from inches away, pulling the trigger of his weapon while aiming it at the second victim even after there was no remaining ammunition. We thus conclude that a rational jury could have had a reasonable doubt with respect to whether defendant’s acts were “specifically designed to cause the death of the [first] victim” (People v. Gonzalez, 1 N.Y.3d 464, 467 [ 775 N.Y.S.2d 224 , 807 N.E.2d 273 ] (2004); see People v. Garbutt, 9 A.D.3d 255 [ 780 N.Y.S.2d 126 ] (2004), lv. denied 3 N.Y.3d 674 [ 784 N.Y.S.2d 12 , 817 N.E.2d 830 ] (2004)).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 768 F. Supp. 2d 493 - Baker v. Kirkpatrick