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A Harlem woman faces murder charges for holding an Army veteran from behind while a killer with a knife butchered him, authorities said.
Mary Saunders, 37, was busted Monday in the Oct. 19 murder of 35-year-old Hason Correa, who was stabbed nine times in front of his dad in the lobby of the W. 152nd St. apartment building where Saunders lives.
At the time, authorities alleged that Mary, 41, had punched and kicked Correa before trying to pin him down while her brothers stabbed him and then chased after him when he attempted to escape.
However, during a May court hearing, Bragg’s prosecutors said they didn’t think they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mary had intended to kill Correa, or that she knew her brother had a knife.
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Prosecutors argued Mary’s behavior that night “supports her contention” that she did not intend to murder Correa and that the evidence showed her presence “was not a determining factor” in the vet’s death.
As part of her plea agreement, Mary pleaded guilty to a downgraded charge of felony assault and was allowed to go free on time served after she spent a year in jail as the case played out in court
This reminds me of a joke. Bob is on trial for murdering Bill. Bob's statement: "Your Honor, I was just sitting on my doorstoop whittling a piece of wood with my knife, making a little wooden sculpture. There was a banana peel nearby. There came Bill walking down the street, stepped on the banana peel, and slid down falling right on my knife. And he did that nine times...".
Just how could this woman "not have known that her brother had a knife" if she held the victim after the first stab, to be stabbed by her brother eight more times?
Here is recent update. She got time served but didn't hold him down.
Woman charged in war vet’s murder gets time served after plea deal
But in court Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said Saunders only kicked and tried to punch the victim, and that those “did not appear to cause any damage.”
“The people do not believe that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mary Saunders knew that her brother had a knife, or that she shared the intent to kill Hason Correa.” Yoran told the judge.
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