People v. Conklin

OPINION OF THE COURT

Denman, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, after a *21jury trial, of criminally negligent homicide and sentencing him to IV3 to 4 years’ imprisonment. Defendant was convicted of causing the death by suffocation of the 21-month-old daughter of his girlfriend. Defendant’s primary contention on appeal is that the court erred in refusing to charge the jury with the responsibility of determining whether defendant’s confession was "involuntarily made” (CPL 60.45), and thus to be disregarded, because it was "obtained by means of custody of the defendant in the…