PEOPLE v. COMFORT


6 A.D.3d 871 (2004)

775 N.Y.S.2d 127

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. PHYLLIS R. COMFORT, Appellant.

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

April 15, 2004.


Mugglin, J.

Following an intensive missing person search, the three-year-old victim's body, which had a bathrobe sash and a sock tied tightly around his neck, was discovered in a room in the cellar of the house occupied by the 24-year-old defendant (the victim's aunt) and defendant's sister and parents. Defendant confessed to having strangled her nephew and was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 15 years to life imprisonment. On appeal...

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