People v Fields
2005 NY Slip Op 01632 [16 AD3d 142]
March 3, 2005
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 18, 2005


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Douglas Fields, Appellant.

[*1]Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol Berkman, J.), rendered February 15, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490 [1987]). The jury was presented with conflicting expert testimony regarding the cause of death, and the record supports its decision to credit the People's expert testimony (see People v Miller, 91 NY2d 372, 380 [1998]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Friedman, Marlow and Nardelli, JJ.