People v. Leggard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Buchter, J.), rendered December 11, 2000, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant has not preserved for appellate review his claim that the evidence was legally insufficient because the People failed to prove that he was aware that shaking his infant could result in her death (see CPL 470.05 [2]). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the…
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