People v. Tychanski

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was convicted of reckless endangerment in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.20), a class A misdemeanor, after a jury trial. Defendant, a hospital volunteer, disconnected the life support of an AIDS patient in the belief that he had been healed by prayer. Although she was arraigned on a felony complaint charging her with reckless endangerment in the first degree, the Grand Jury filed an indictment charging defendant with the misdemeanor of second degree reckless endangerment.

Defendant argues on…