State v. Thomas

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal from defendant’s conviction of first degree murder and the denial of his 29.15 motion. Defendant, Troynell Thomas, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of probation or parole. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence adduced at trial was as follows:

On October 20, 1986, Andre Moore, who was fifteen at the time, was playing basketball with several other teenagers including John Bronson, Derrick Jones and defendant’s son Michael Smitty. Moore and Smitty began to…