People v. Smith

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Cacciabaudo, J.), rendered May 14, 1996, convicting him of murder in the second degree (ten counts [counts one through ten of the indictment]), arson in the first degree, and arson in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him to 25 years to life for each of his convictions for murder in the second degree with the sentences imposed on counts one and two to run concurrently with each other, the sentences imposed on counts three and four to run concurrently with each other and consecutively to the…