FILE – In this Tuesday, March 26, 2019, file photo, defendant Chanel Lewis, right, is seated at the defense table at Supreme Court in the Queens Borough of New York, on the sixth day of his retrial for the August 2016 murder of Karina Vetrano. On Monday, April 1, 2019, a jury convicted Lewis of the murder. A previous trial ended in a hung jury. (Charles Eckert/Newsday via AP, Pool, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — A man convicted of murder in the death of a New York City runner has been sentenced to life in prison.
Chanel (shuh-NEHL’) Lewis was sentenced on Tuesday in the August 2016 death of Karina Vetrano in Queens.
On Monday, the judge denied a defense motion to set aside the guilty verdict after hearing arguments about alleged juror misconduct.
Phil Vetrano found his 30-year-old daughter’s body, strangled and sexually abused, in 2016 in a park where they often went for runs together.
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