The defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree after a nonjury trial. The People established, largely through the testimony of three expert witnesses, all of whom had examined the 14-month-old victim, that the infant sustained mortal second degree burns over a third of his body when the defendant, holding him by his hands and feet, forcibly immersed him in a tub which he had filled with scalding tap water. Given the severity of the burns, the People's experts...
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