People v. Pierce

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Elbert Hinkson, J.), rendered April 7, *951994, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing her to a term of 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

In this case where defendant was charged with throwing her baby granddaughter off a roof, the court properly exercised its discretion in receiving the testimony of a detective who reconstructed the incident by dropping a weighted bag and thereby determining that the location where the victim was found was not consistent with defendant’s claim that the victim…