People v. Freycinet

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Eng, J.), rendered May 2, 2005, convicting him of manslaughter in the second degree, tampering with physical evidence, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly determined that the non-opinion portion of the autopsy report was nontestimonial in nature (see Crawford v Washington, 541 US 36 [2004]), and, thus, was admissible under the business records exception to the hearsay rule even though the…