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MURDER CONVICTION REVERSED, AGAINST THE WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE.

The Third Department reversed defendant’s murder conviction, finding it against the weight of the evidence. The victim, who died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen, was defendant’s two-year-old son. The forensic evidence placed the time of the injury during a period when defendant was not home. Contradictions in witness testimony rendered it too weak to support the conviction. The Third Department went through the trial evidence in detail. The evidence cannot be fairly summarized here. People v Taft, 2016 NY Slip Op 08123, 3rd Dept 12-1-16

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