Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 26-year-old Taylor Partlow of Buffalo has been sentenced by State Supreme Court Justice Russell P. Buscaglia to a determinate sentence of 8 years in prison followed by 5 years of post-release supervision. She was sentenced on Thursday, September 5, 2019.

On Sunday, September 30, 2018, at approximately 5:20 a.m., the defendant stabbed her boyfriend, 20-year-old Miguel Wyatt, in the chest during an argument at a home on Block Street in the City of Buffalo. The victim later died at ECMC.

At trial, the defense argued that the stabbing was in self-defense. However, the jury rejected that claim and convicted Partlow, as charged, of Manslaughter in the First Degree, a Class “B” felony, following a four-day trial in May 2019.

DA Flynn commends Det. Adam Stephany, Det. James Kaska, and Capt. Jason Whiteknight of the Buffalo Police Department for their work on the case.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Patrick B. Shanahan of the DA’s Tactical Prosecution Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Gina M. Gramaglia of the DA’s Domestic Violence Bureau.