People v. Thompson

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Judith Lieb, J.), rendered February 28, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 23 years, affirmed.

The court properly declined to impose any sanction for the loss, due to the flooding of a police storage facility in Hurricane Sandy, of a knife that defendant claims to be exculpatory material under Brady v Maryland (373 US 83 [1963]). The loss of evidence as the result of a natural disaster cannot be attributed to the People (People v Daly, 140 AD3d 593, 594 [1st Dept 2016];…