Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg seeks to dismiss murder indictment against nurse, 44, who stabbed her boyfriend to death in Upper West Side apartment ‘in self-defense’ – after his stance against prosecuting her earned him $500,000 in donations from Soros-backed advocacy group
- Tracey McCarter, 46, was indicted on a murder charge following the 2020 stabbing death of her estranged husband
- Progressive Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg tweeted in her defense during his campaign for the borough’s top prosecutorial position
- Bragg’s campaign was subsequently awarded $500,000 by the George Soros-backed group Color of Change
- Bragg petitioned Monday for the murder indictment against McCarter to be dropped
- A judge previously rejected two requests from Bragg to allow the defendant to plead to lesser charges
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a motion Monday to dismiss the murder indictment against a Manhattan nurse who fatally stabbed her husband after the DA accepted $500,000 in Soros-backed campaign donations for his position on the case.
Tracy McCarter, 46, was charged as a result of stabbing her estranged husband, James Murray, 48, during a March 2020 argument at their Upper West Side apartment.
McCarter has claimed self-defense as a result of years of spousal abuse, but upon presenting the case to a grand jury, she was indicted for murder.
The defendant now claims Murray accidentally ‘fell’ on the knife that killed him. The case’s judge withheld a decision on a motion to dismiss Monday.
A different judge previously rejected two attempts from Bragg to allow McCarter to plead to lesser charges – she determined both proposals to be illegal.
Tracey McCarter (left) appears in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday as DA Bragg petitions to have her murder case dismissed
McCarter, 46, was indicted on murder charges by a grand jury for the 2020 stabbing death of her estranged husband
Progressive Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was given $500,000 in campaign donations by a Soros-backed group in part due to his support of dropping the murder charge against McCarter
Manhattan prosecutors sent the case to a grand jury in September of 2020, when Bragg’s predecessor Cy Vance was still in office. Bragg, at the time, was campaigning for his current role as Manhattan DA.
During his primary campaign, he voiced support for McCarter, tweeting ‘I #StandWithTracy,’ and signaling that he would, if elected, dismiss the ‘unjust’ case against the nurse.
His advocacy for McCarter’s cause caught the attention of the George Soros-backed group Color of Change, which subsequently endorsed Bragg in the primary and handed him $500,000 of campaign coffer cash.
Color of Change is a progressive nonprofit advocacy group that Soros used to funnel campaign donations through to the Manhattan DA race
Color of Change was founded in 2005 as a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group specifically used to bolster the political voice of African Americans.
The group has led a handful of noteworthy entertainment and media sector protests including a campaign to hire more diverse cast members at Saturday Night Live and advocating for the firing of former Sony boss Amy Pascal, who wrote in a leaked email that she believed President Barack Obama would enjoy the films Django Unchained and The Butler, both of which confront the issue of slavery in pre-civil rights America.
Soros, who has played an outsized role in backing progressive DA candidates across the US, funneled the half-million dollar donation through the Color of Change political action committee, according to public filings.
DA Bragg appears in court on Monday petitioning to have the murder charge against McCarter dismissed
Two attempts from Bragg to allow McCarter to plead to lesser charges have previously been rejected by a judge
McCarter looks jovial as she strolls outside of court on Monday, where DA Alvin Bragg has asked that the murder indictment against her be dismissed
Billionaire George Soros has spent tens of millions of dollars backing progressive DAs in races across the country – including recalled SF DA Chesa Boudin and LA DA George Gascon, who has survived two recall attempts
Bragg, a progressive, has spent his time in office downgrading more than half of his felony cases to misdemeanor crimes as crime soars in the New York City, earning him a soft-on-crime reputation.
The current DA campaigned on the promise of criminal justice reform and issued a controversial ‘Day One’ memo after assuming office that said he would only seek prison time in the most severe cases.
McCarter was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon following the 2020 fight that occurred inside an apartment on Amsterdam Avenue near West 91st Street.
The victim was taken to nearby St. Like’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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