Karina murder susp’s hospital data OK: judge

A Queens judge made hospital records of the accused killer of Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano admissible into evidence on Thursday.

Judge Michael Aloise ruled the jury could learned about Chanel Lewis’ visit to the SUNY Downstate Medical Center emergency room in Brooklyn a day after Vetrano’s murder on Aug. 2, 2016.

Lewis, 22, went to the ER for injuries he claimed he suffered at the hands of a gang of muggers, his father Richard Lewis told the Daily News

Aloise, however, denied a prosecution request for Lewis’ cell phone records after the day of the killing.

Lewis, dressed in a white collared shirt and black slacks, didn’t speak but looked back at the gallery several times. He was arrested for Vetrano’s murder about six months after the crime and gave a DNA sample that matched skin cells lifted from the jogger’s fingernails.

In a case that rests heavily on that evidence, defense lawyers Robert Moeller and Julia Burke of the Legal Aid Society moved for full records of DNA tests.

“It shouldn’t take much to get. We’re not asking for the raw data,” he told Aloise.

Moeller added outside court, “They (prosecution) served us with discovery of people that were swabbed and excluded, but we don’t have files as to how they came to those conclusions. We just have the report saying ‘excluded.’ ”

Prosecutor Brad Leventhal called the request irrelevant to the case.

“It’s hundreds and hundreds of pages,” he said. “There is no other need for any other discovery regarding the other individuals.”

Aloise denied the DNA request.

Cops allege that Lewis was full of rage when he grabbed Vetrano on a jogging path in Spring Creek Park near her house in Howard Beach. He allegedly sexually abused and strangled her.

Jury selection is slated to begin Oct. 29.