GREENE COUNTY, N.Y. (WRGB) — A New York woman on Thursday was found guilty of killing a man in a 2021 stabbing.
After a month-long trial and three days of deliberation, a Greene County jury found Carrie Weiser guilty of second-degree murder.
“This was a very complicated case,” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione wrote in a news release. “Much evidence was presented to the jury by both the prosecution and the defense.”
On Nov. 27, 2021, police responded to 68-year-old Scott Myers’s apartment in Catskill, where Myers was found suffering from a stab wound. Weiser, who was 32 at the time, was arrested and accused of stabbing Myers on the left side of his neck, severing his carotid artery.
Myers died from his injuries, according to the New York State Police.
In December 2021, a Grand Jury voted an indictment against Weiser, charging her with second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. While the appearance was postponed after the indictment, statements by the defense counsel challenged Weiser’s indictment in court, among which one stated that Myers intended to rape Weiser and that Weiser “killed Scott Myers in self-defense.”
Stanzione wrote in the Jun. 28 press release that the Jury worked through “each of the elements of the crime” and “recognized that the prosecution not only proved the charge of murder beyond a reasonable doubt,” but also disproved “beyond a reasonable doubt” each of the defenses the defense counsel provided.
“This jury left no stone unturned before unanimously concluding that Carrie Weiser did, in fact, murder Scott Myers, Stanzione wrote.
Weiser is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 27.
