STAY IN JAIL: Yonkers Man Convicted Of Killing His Mother Loses Appeal – By Brian Harrod

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When Yonkers Police arrived on the scene, the defendant was waiting at the guard booth. Coverdale told the officers his mother was in apartment 225 at the complex on Schroeder Street. hey found the victim dead in her bed. The medical examiner later said she died from multiple stab wounds. He pleaded guilty March 15, 2018.

WHITE PLAINS: A former Yonkers man who was convicted in Westchester County Court for killing his mother, has lost the appeal of his guilty plea and sentence.

Andre Coverdale, 32, pled guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of Dawne McCray in her Yonkers apartment on January 16, 2016.

He appealed his conviction before the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court, Second Judicial Department, which affirmed the judgment of the county court.

“Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the court’s explanation, in sum and substance, that the defendant would be subject to a life sentence if convicted of murder after trial, and that his attorney succeeded in securing a nonlife’ sentence, did not amount to coercion or deception,” the appeals court wrote in a December 30, 2020 decision.

“In addition, the record belies the defendant’s contention that he was coerced into pleading guilty, as he expressly denied that he was subjected to any threats, force, or coercion to plead guilty.”