People v. Reynolds

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.), rendered May 20, 1993, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of criminally negligent homicide, and sentencing her to intermittent incarceration for four weekends and to 100 hours of community service, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s boyfriend, the victim, arrived at defendant’s apartment with a gun, a .380 semiautomatic. Defendant, who lacked any experience with guns, told police that she removed the ammunition magazine from the gun and placed the magazine and the gun in her closet for safekeeping. Later, when returning…