ALBANY – The state Court of Appeals has upheld a woman’s manslaughter conviction for smothering her stepdaughter over the stringent objections of two dissenters who said the prosecution’s PowerPoint presentation to the jury was “flagrantly inappropriate” and prejudicial to the defendant.
In a set of hand-downs that was heavy on criminal matters, the court Tuesday also ruled that a police search that yielded a loaded handgun from a burglary suspect’s purse was illegal and gave a broad reading to the kinds of contact that can constitute the crime of forcible touching.
