PEOPLE v. STRAWBRIDGE


299 A.D.2d 584 (2002)

751 N.Y.S.2d 606

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MELISSA M. STRAWBRIDGE, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

Decided November 7, 2002.


Spain, J.

Following a nonjury trial, defendant was convicted of depraved indifference second degree murder (see Penal Law § 125.25 [4]) for the death of her baby girl shortly after giving birth without assistance at home in the Village of Altamont, Albany County, on the evening of March 24, 1997. The proof adduced at the trial of this tragic case established that defendant, then age 21, had left a long-term, apparently troubled relationship and was living...

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