A man convicted in the grisly knife-point murders of two Flushing residents will apparently remain behind bars for life, despite a dissenting appellate judge’s concern that police "strategically" delayed an arraignment so they could question the suspect without the interference of an attorney.
In a decision yesterday, the Appellate Division, Second Department, upheld Jin Cheng Lin’s 2008 first-degree murder conviction for killing his former girlfriend and her brother, who were stabbed a total of 59 times, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. The panel dismissed several second-degree murder counts as duplicative but that does not affect Lin’s life-without-parole sentence.
