PREMO, J.
Incensed that the driver behind him tapped his car with her bumper, defendant Andrew Douglas Burnett, snatched her little white dog Leo out of her car and threw him onto a crowded roadway where he was run over by a minivan and killed. Defendant was convicted of animal cruelty and received three years in state prison. On appeal, he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, the instructions, and the competence of counsel.
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