State v. Tiffany

EISMANN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction, following a jury trial, for the crime of involuntary manslaughter’ where the defendant-appellant smothered her infant son in an attempt to stop his crying. We affirm the judgment.

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On August 5, 1999, appellant Michelle Tiffany’s two-month-old son, Nathan, died. She initially reported that she had put Nathan down for a nap and taken a bath, and when she came back into the bedroom he was not breathing. An autopsy performed the next day did not reveal any cause of death, and so the pathologist listed…