A murder charge lodged against a former state trooper accused of ramming his cruiser into a family’s vehicle and killing an 11-year-old girl can move forward at trial, the state’s highest court recently ruled, upholding an appellate court decision.
The New York’s Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s move to reinstate a second-degree murder charge against Christopher Baldner, 46, stating “the evidence presented to the grand jury was legally sufficient to demonstrate that defendant acted with depraved indifference to human life.”
Baldner, of Catskill, is charged in connection to the December 2020 death of Monica Goods, 11, of Brooklyn, who died at the end of a high-speed police chase on the state Thruway in Ulster County…