People v. Sevigny

OPINION of the court

William C. Brennan, J.

Defendant, herein, was indicted for burglary in the third degree; criminal mischief in the second degree; and a violation of section 4218 of the Public Health Law.

The defendant, acting in concert with another individual, is accused of having broken into several mausoleums and desecrating numerous crypts, caskets and their contents (i.e., removing limbs and throwing them on the floor). In addition, he damaged and defaced religious pictures and books of the families of the deceased as well as the mausoleums themselves, which are located on the grounds…