Nicole "Nikki" Addimando is an American woman who shot and killed her domestic partner in Poughkeepsie, New York in September 2017. Originally sentenced to 19 years to life, Addimando's term of imprisonment was reduced on appeal to 7.5 years.
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NEW YORK, --The Nicole Addimando Community Defense Committee today announced that a petition urging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to grant clemency to NikkiAddimando has received more than 25,000 signatures.
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NikkiAddimando, convicted of second-degree murder for the death of her boyfriend, whom she said abused her, petitioned to have her sentence reduced under the 2019 law. But a judge ruled against her.
“Alive but still not free”: nikkiaddimando and judicial failure to apply the domesticviolencesurvivors justice act. Christopher L. hamilton*.
Nikki is a mother, sister, aunt, friend—and a criminalized survivor in New York’s Hudson Valley. In September 2017, she was forced to kill her abusive partner in self-defense. She had more evidence of domesticviolence than most survivors.
Nicole “Nikki” Addimando of Poughkeepsie shot and killed her boyfriend after years of alleged abuse. Her highly publicized 2019 case and reduced sentencing have cast a light on a new domesticviolence law in New York.
All NikkiAddimando’s two children want for Christmas is their mother. Instead, for the past six Decembers, they get her call from prison. If they’re lucky, it will be 30 minutes; if not, their Christmas together will last only 15 minutes before the prison cuts off the call.
NikkiAddimando is incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York. Nikki is expected to be released from prison sometime in 2024. In December 2022, advocates sympathetic to her case petitioned the state to grant her clemency.
Domesticviolence is a global epidemic that continuesto quietly plague our homes, getting lost in the noise of the daily news cycle, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.
Nikki is one of many domesticviolencesurvivors who is incarcerated after defending themselves.It is a moving portrait of Kim, Tanisha, and Nikki, three survivors whose strikingly similar stories are separated by over 30 years.
Nicole “Nikki” Addimando is a victim of domesticviolence and rape who was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted in April 2019 of second-degree murder after shooting and killing her abusive partner out of fear for her life.
Read on to learn more about Michelle and Nikki’s story. Plus, during the month of May, we're donating fifteen percent of all polish sales to Safe Horizon, a non-profit charity that provides services and support to victims and survivors of domesticviolence.
NikkiAddimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.
