{"id":32963,"date":"2025-11-08T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32963\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:41:07","slug":"fatal-swing-or-self-defense-jury-hears-opening-arguments-in-rivera-stabbing-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32963\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal swing or self-defense? Jury hears opening arguments in Rivera stabbing trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Updated: Nov. 08, 2025, 5:30 a.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2025, 5:30 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Rivera manslaughter trial\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NII5RJQEB5EOLFYHY6GPXF3MPE.JPG\"\/>Opening arguments in the fatal stabbing trial of defendant Carlos &#8220;shorty Rivera was held today in Staten Island Supreme Court, presided over by Justice Mario Mattei on Nov.7, 2025.(Steve White for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KUZBLDFGRNHEDPS7V6NZ4YJYCQ\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 There\u2019s no question as to what happened on the afternoon of June 17, 2024, as emergency crews were called to a commercial block in Stapleton. Longtime resident Joel Badillo, 41, had died from a stab wound to the chest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KCH22ZGKI5GGDCF5TCIXJBIQWQ\">And there\u2019s no question as to who stabbed Badillo. It was a man who he knew for years, and at one time considered a friend: Carlos Rivera, 38, of Targee Street in Stapleton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyUpdated: Nov. 08, 2025, 5:30 a.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2025, 5:30 a.m.Opening arguments in the fatal stabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-32963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}