People v. Moorer

Defendant appeals as of right from his conviction, following a jury trial, of second-degree murder, MCL 750.317. The trial court sentenced defendant to a term of forty to eighty-five years’ imprisonment. We affirm.

Defendant was charged with first-degree premeditated murder, MCL 750.316, in connection with the suffocation death of his twenty-one-month-old son, Antonio. In a signed statement given to the police and introduced into evidence at trial, defendant admitted suffocating Antonio by holding his hand over his son’s nose and mouth until he stopped crying. Defendant later led the police to…