People v. Albers

Defendant Karen S. Albers appeals as of right from a conviction of involuntary manslaughter, MCL 750.321, following a jury trial. Defendant was sentenced to four to fifteen years of imprisonment, with credit for forty days served. We affirm.

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Defendant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on the basis of an incident in which her six-year-old son, Brent, obtained a lighter and started a fire in their apartment complex, resulting in the death of a twenty-two-month old child, Christopher Byers. The victim resided in another apartment within the same complex occupied by the defendant and her…