People v. Bonilla
Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court
95 A.D.2d 396 (1983)
Relevant factsFree
After Bonilla shot the victim in the head, hospital doctors declared him brain dead using tests a defense expert claimed were inadequate, then removed his organs for transplant before ending life support, and Bonilla argued that under either a heartbeat-based or brain-death-based definition of death, the hospital's subsequent actions, not his gunshot, actually caused the death.
IssueFree
Whether a subsequent, intervening action taken by a third-party constitutes a defense to a homicide if the death is not solely attributable to the intervening action.