People v. Caban

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J.), rendered April 28, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminally negligent homicide, and sentencing her to a term of 1 to 3 years, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

The subject incident occurred when defendant was backing up her Jeep Grand Cherokee along the west side of Third Avenue, moving south (the wrong way on a one-way thoroughfare) toward the intersection with East 107th Street. As defendant moved the Jeep, against a red light, into the pedestrian right-of-way at the…