People v. Mitchell

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J.), rendered November 6, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree and attempted robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of life imprisonment without parole and 15 years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating the DNA databank fee, and otherwise affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490 [1987]). Defendant was convicted of attempting to steal a car at gunpoint from a…