People v. Stanfield

At issue on this appeal is whether the crime of criminally negligent homicide is a lesser included offense of the crime of manslaughter in the second degree.

The defendant was indicted for manslaughter, second degree, for the death by shooting of Thomasina Banks, a woman with whom he maintained a common-law relationship. There were no other witnesses to the shooting and the People’s case was proved almost entirely by the defendant’s own oral and written statements, judicially determined to be voluntary or otherwise unobjected to. The essential facts, as reconstructed from the defendant’s…