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10-07-2008, 03:05 PM
Woman charged in killing freed from jail pending trial
Kimberly Mayo, facing manslaughter charge, to go to women's shelter
TROY — With tears rolling down her face, a woman accused of killing a former boyfriend was told today she would be freed from jail and allowed to go to a shelter for battered women.
In a move opposed by the office of District Attorney Richard McNally, Judge Robert Jacon freed Kimberly Mayo from the Rensselaer County Jail, where she has been held without bail since May. Mayo was turned over to the custody of the county Probation Department and Unity House, a Troy social services agency that operates shelters.
Mayo was indicted in July on charges of first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of her former boyfriend Keith Levin.
Her case is pending trial.
An argument between the two turned physical shortly after 9 p.m. May 21 on the sidewalk in front of 408 Eighth St. Mayo is accused of stabbing Levin, who later died.
Mayo, who also faces a charge of criminal possession of a weapon, was originally charged with second-degree murder in the case but a grand jury reduced the charges to manslaughter after hearing evidence in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Arthur Glass asked Jacon to set bail at $50,000 citing the seriousness of the case.
''There is also no criminal complaints on record anywhere for domestic violence calls involving the victim and defendant,'' Glass said.
Mayo's court-appointed attorney, George LaMarche, told Jacon bail would be unfair to his client.
''Any bail amount is the same as no bail at all to my client, who is indigent,'' LaMarche said.
Jacon freed Mayo to probation and Unity House and ordered her to report daily to the Probation Department.
In a police statement on file with the court, Mayo claimed she and Levin argued on and off all day, that the knife was his and that she acted in self-defense.
"He hit me. He swung on me, I swing back and he pulled a knife," Mayo wrote in the statement. "The knife falls, I am on my knees, I pick up the knife and swung the knife at him. I did not mean for this to happen. I didn't have no knife. I was just defending myself," Mayo wrote in her statement.
Levin, originally from the Bronx, was living with a girlfriend in Stillwater at the time of his death
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Kimberly Mayo, facing manslaughter charge, to go to women's shelter
TROY — With tears rolling down her face, a woman accused of killing a former boyfriend was told today she would be freed from jail and allowed to go to a shelter for battered women.
In a move opposed by the office of District Attorney Richard McNally, Judge Robert Jacon freed Kimberly Mayo from the Rensselaer County Jail, where she has been held without bail since May. Mayo was turned over to the custody of the county Probation Department and Unity House, a Troy social services agency that operates shelters.
Mayo was indicted in July on charges of first-degree manslaughter in the stabbing death of her former boyfriend Keith Levin.
Her case is pending trial.
An argument between the two turned physical shortly after 9 p.m. May 21 on the sidewalk in front of 408 Eighth St. Mayo is accused of stabbing Levin, who later died.
Mayo, who also faces a charge of criminal possession of a weapon, was originally charged with second-degree murder in the case but a grand jury reduced the charges to manslaughter after hearing evidence in the case.
Assistant District Attorney Arthur Glass asked Jacon to set bail at $50,000 citing the seriousness of the case.
''There is also no criminal complaints on record anywhere for domestic violence calls involving the victim and defendant,'' Glass said.
Mayo's court-appointed attorney, George LaMarche, told Jacon bail would be unfair to his client.
''Any bail amount is the same as no bail at all to my client, who is indigent,'' LaMarche said.
Jacon freed Mayo to probation and Unity House and ordered her to report daily to the Probation Department.
In a police statement on file with the court, Mayo claimed she and Levin argued on and off all day, that the knife was his and that she acted in self-defense.
"He hit me. He swung on me, I swing back and he pulled a knife," Mayo wrote in the statement. "The knife falls, I am on my knees, I pick up the knife and swung the knife at him. I did not mean for this to happen. I didn't have no knife. I was just defending myself," Mayo wrote in her statement.
Levin, originally from the Bronx, was living with a girlfriend in Stillwater at the time of his death
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=727162