At trial it is announced that the defendant is being charged with three counts of murder in the second degree. This is incorrect, whenever someone intentionally kills more than one person in the same act the homicides are to be charged as murder in the first degree.
New York Penal Code, Article 125, Section 27, Subsection 8 states: "A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when...as part of the same criminal transaction, the defendant, with intent to cause serious physical injury to, or the death of, an additional person or persons, causes the death of an additional person or persons".
New York Penal Code, Article 125, Section 27, Subsection 8 states: "A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when...as part of the same criminal transaction, the defendant, with intent to cause serious physical injury to, or the death of, an additional person or persons, causes the death of an additional person or persons".
A judge would never grant bail in any amount to someone facing three counts of murder in the first degree. At the very least the defendant is looking at three sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole and very likely could be given the death penalty. Someone facing spending the rest of their life in prison, and especially being executed, is the definition of a person with nothing left to loose and has every reason to flee the jurisdiction.