People v. Jenkins

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Friedlander, J.), rendered March 20, 1984, convicting him of assault in the second degree and burglary in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

Defendant contends that the discovery of his fingerprint upon an envelope in a drawer of the private office of the burglarized premises was insufficient to exclude to a moral certainty all reasonable hypotheses of his innocence. We disagree. There was expert testimony to the effect that such a print would last only 24 to 48 hours.…