People v. Carrenard

*487Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Collini, J.), rendered August 17, 2006, convicting him of murder in the second degree (two counts), burglary in the second degree, assault in the third degree, and aggravated cruelty to animals, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was charged with entering the home of his former girlfriend and her family in the early morning hours of August 9, 2005, stabbing her mother to death, stabbing her niece Patricia in the face, and slaying the family dog. At the trial,…