I heard on the radio yesterday that her defense claims it's something like 20+ percent of the inhabitants on their specific floors have made the same mistake. I actually made this same mistake once, when I went down for my mail, I used the stairs instead of the elevator to come back up and walked up one flight less. It's a doorman building, and my downstairs neighbor has adjoining apartments and keeps her doors unlocked, so I opened the door and was about 2 steps in when I realized the paint and furniture was wrong. Nobody noticed but I walked back out and up to my apartment embarrassed at having violated someone else's space. Honest mistake but if I had killed my neighbor because she startled me I should have gone to prison.
