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Abstract: 

While it’s a crime to beat your wife in New York State, in the Second Department, the largest of New York State’s four intermediate appellate court districts, it is not a crime to destroy her property. In People v. Person, a conviction of criminal mischief was reversed because the defendant had an equitable interest in the property destroyed.

Keywords: Whiton v. Snyder; People v. Morton; People v. Schmid; People v. Kittel; O’Brien v. O”Brien; larceny differs from criminal mischief; People v. Zinke; Young et al v. Seckler et al; Manheim v. Manheim; Kroul v. Kroul’ Goldberg v. Goldberg; People

Affiliations:  1: Pace Battered Women Justice Center; 2: Pace University School of Law.