Previously, Addimando had been denied such sentencing by Dutchess County Judge Edward McLoughlin, who presided over the three-week murder trial and sentencing hearing. She was sentenced in February 2020 to 19 years to life, which she is serving in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
Addimando was convicted of second-degree murder in April 2019. She never denied the September 2017 shooting, but claimed she did so after years of physical and emotional abuse. Prosecutors long argued that while she may have been a victim, there was no evidence directly proving Grover was the culprit of the abuse.
In its decision, which the court noted was the first time the appeals board dealt with the two-year-old law, the court said the act was passed in recognition that less harsh sentences may be imposed in certain appropriate cases involving domestic violence survivors. We are persuaded that the instant case is such an appropriate case.
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How should the long-term impact of repeated abuse be measured, or the length of time between an instance of abuse and a criminal act be considered?
Such questions, considered by the state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, could soon decide Nicole Addimando’s fate. In doing so, the panel of four justices may also provide clarity for the application of a two-year-old state law that s relatively lacking in legal precedent, while intended on providing sentencing leniency for those driven to criminal activity by domestic violence.
“Does (a criminal act) have to be a sense of immediacy as to spatial and time orientation?” Judge William Mastro asked Putnam County Assistant District Attorney Larry Glasser during a virtual appellate court hearing Thursday. “Does the act apply because of the history (of abuse), or does the state require imminency of conduct that creates the reaction that ends up in th
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