Andrew Goldstein's first trial ended in a hung jury. His second trial
yielded a guilty verdict on murder 2 but it was overturned on the
grounds that a shrink gave hearsay evidence and the people quoted were
not in court to be questioned by the defense.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/nyregion/11kendra.html?ref=nyregion
Nearly 8 Years Later, Guilty Plea in Subway Killing
Andrew Goldstein, who first faced charges in January 1999.
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: October 11, 2006
A schizophrenic man pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday,
admitting for the first time that he knew what he was doing when he
pushed a promising young writer to her death in front of a subway
train almost eight years ago.
The man, Andrew Goldstein, acknowledged that he knew it was wrong to
shove the woman, Kendra Webdale, 32, into the path of an N train at
the 23rd Street station in January 1999.
The death of Ms. Webdale, a journalist and photographer who had moved
to the city from Buffalo, unnerved New Yorkers who had come to think
of their city as the safest it had been in years. The public outcry
over her death led to a state law, known as Kendra’s Law, that gives
families the right to demand court-ordered outpatient psychiatric
treatment for their relatives.
Until his plea yesterday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr.
Goldstein had claimed that he had pushed Ms. Webdale during a
psychotic episode and therefore was not responsible for his actions.
[...]
Mr. Goldstein’s schizophrenia was diagnosed 10 years before Ms.
Webdale was killed. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he
was living in Howard Beach, Queens, at the time of his arrest.
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