State v. Compton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

KESTIN, J.A.D.

Defendant was charged with the murder of his four-and-one-half-month-old son, Ronald, and with second degree endangering the welfare of the child. He was convicted of lesser-included first degree aggravated manslaughter and of endangering as charged. After defendant’s motion for a judgment of acquittal pursuant to R. 3:18-2 was denied, he was sentenced to the presumptive twenty-year term for the manslaughter conviction, N.J.S.A. *4802C:44-1f(1)(a), along with a concurrent presumptive term of seven years for the endangering conviction, N.J.S.A.…