People v. Austin

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Patricia Anne Williams, J.), rendered January 10, 2013, as amended May 30, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the third degree (two counts) and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 7 to 14 years, affirmed.

At trial, the People’s witnesses testified that scientific testing had shown that the DNA in blood evidence from the scene of the crime matched defendant’s DNA. The blood evidence itself, however, was unavailable at trial because Hurricane Sandy…