People v. Baker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtRose, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tioga County (Sgueglia, J.), rendered April 7, 2000, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of murder in the second degree.
After a three-year-old child died while defendant was babysitting in the child’s home, she was charged with both intentional and depraved indifference murder. At trial, the evidence established that, on a warm summer night, the victim died of hyperthermia as a result of her prolonged exposure to excessive heat in a bedroom of her foster parents’ apartment. The excessive heat was caused by the furnace having run…
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