People v. Hoyt

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Tioga County (Sgueglia, J.), entered June 17, 1994, which denied the People’s application pursuant to Public Health Law § 4210 (4) for the exhumation, removal and examination of five bodies.

Defendant’s five children all died as infants between 1965 and 1971.1 It was not until 1992 that the deaths were treated as possible homicides. At that time, an investigation was commenced which ultimately led to the discovery of evidence *787that defendant had murdered her five children by suffocation. By application dated April 11, 1994, the District Attorney of…