People v. Jean-Baptiste

OPINION OF THE COURT

Pigott, J.

The issue raised by this appeal is whether the evidence introduced at trial was legally sufficient to establish defendant’s guilt of depraved indifference murder. Because the Appellate Division properly applied the present standard for depraved *541indifference murder, as set forth in People v Feingold (7 NY3d 288 [2006]), we conclude that it was not and affirm the Appellate Division’s reduction of defendant’s conviction to manslaughter in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.15 [1]).

On January 13, 2002, just after midnight, Michael Weekes, his fiancée and several…