People v. Mitchell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*555Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bonnie Wittner, J.), rendered January 24, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree (four counts), murder in the second degree and burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of life without parole, unanimously affirmed.
The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. On the contrary, we find the evidence to be overwhelming. There was an extensive chain of circumstantial evidence linking defendant to the crime, which included fingerprint and DNA evidence, consciousness-of-guilt…
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