Legal Opinion
People v. DiBlasi
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 18, 1987PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Delin, J.), rendered June 6, 1983, convicting him of burglary in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
On appeal the defendant contends that the circumstantial evidence, consisting solely of fingerprints found at the scene of the crime, was insufficient to support a guilty verdict. It is axiomatic that where a conviction is based solely on circumstantial evidence, in order for guilt to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the hypothesis of guilt should flow…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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3Cited by7 opinions
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