A judge improperly dismissed indictments against a woman for manslaughter and two other charges for her alleged failure to get help after a teen suffered a drug overdose in her home, a state appeals court determined.

Lewis County Court Judge Daniel King used an incorrect legal sufficiency analysis when he dismissed the most serious charges returned by a grand jury against defendant Brenda Roth, an Appellate Division, Fourth Department, panel ruled in People v. Roth, 15-01259.

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