People v. Weston

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Pincus, J.), rendered January 12, 1995, convicting her of manslaughter in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred when it refused to permit the admission of her videotaped statement into evidence during trial. The defendant asserts that the statement was a continuation of the written statement that she had given earlier. “The general rule is that a party’s self-serving statement is inadmissible at trial when…