Manhattan murder case against Tracy McCarter is dismissed

Key Facts

• A Manhattan judge on Friday dismissed murder charges against nurse Tracy McCarter, who claims she acted in self-defense when she stabbed her abusive husband to death.
• State Supreme Court Justice Diane Kiesel’s decision is the latest development in the saga that began with McCarter’s arrest on second-degree murder charges more than two years ago after James Murray’s stabbing inside her Upper West Side apartment.
• She has become a poster child in the debate about criminalizing victims of domestic violence.
• We were both the victims of the cruel disease of alcoholism,” McCarter said in a statement to the Daily News.

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