People v. Friedman

Defendant was indicted for the crime of murder (Penal Law, § 125.25) in connection with the savage beating of a two-year-old child, Shari Canal, the daughter of *465his paramour. The child had been left alone with the defendant in the mother’s apartment for a short period of time during which the mother went to the basement laundry. Upon her return to the apartment, the lifeless body of the child was discovered and the subsequent autopsy revealed that the child had been beaten to death.

Defendant’s conviction, upon his plea of guilty, for the crime of manslaughter in the first degree (Penal Law, §…