Legal Opinion
People v. Peck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 8, 1993PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMercure, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Chemung County (Castellino, J.), rendered June 26, 1991, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of manslaughter in the second degree.
Defendant, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree in connection with the death of his live-in girlfriend’s 22-month-old daughter, now appeals. Initially, we reject defendant’s attack on the sufficiency of the trial evidence. The medical experts who testified at trial were united in their opinion that the cause of death was an accumulation of blood in the victim’s pericardium from a 0.6-inch tear in…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- People v. NicolasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
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- People v. LinkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990
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