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| Corrections Officer Admits Stabbing Wife Then Crashed Car |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/02/2003 |
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A former prison officer admitted stabbing his wife several times at her parents' house, where she was staying because of their marital problems. Robert Smith, 33, of Ridgeway in western New York, had been set to go on trial Tuesday on charges of attempted second-degree murder, assault, burglary and other charges for the attack March 11 on his wife, Lizabeth. Instead he pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, a felony that carries a maximum 15-year sentence, and criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor. Sentencing was set for Jan. 27. After breaking into his in-laws' house and stabbing his wife, Smith drove his car into a tree in Albion, 35 miles west of Rochester, sustaining serious injuries. Both have since recovered. Smith was a corrections officer at Orleans Correctional Facility. His wife is a teacher at Albion High School. Anyone convicted of a felony can no longer be a corrections officer, a state prison spokeswoman said. |
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