People v. Blond

Appeal from an order of the County Court of Schenectady County (Loyola, J.), entered April 15, 2015, which denied defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 440.30 (1-a) for the performance of forensic DNA testing on specified evidence.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of offenses stemming from a plethora of criminal conduct that included, as is relevant here, his sexually assaulting an underage victim on multiple occasions (96 AD3d 1149 [2012], lv denied 19 NY3d 1101 [2012]). He was sentenced to a lengthy aggregate term of imprisonment and the conviction was upheld on appeal (id.). In 2014,…