Legal Opinion

People v. Torres

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided February 14, 2002Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Peter Benitez, J.), rendered June 18, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was not against the weight of the evidence. The fingerprint expert sufficiently stated the facts underlying his opinion that two latent fingerprints recovered from the burglarized premises matched those of defendant (see, People v Jones, 73 NY2d 427; People v Lane, 195 AD2d 876, 879, lv denied 82 NY2d 850).

Defendant’s…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Hernandez v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. People v. HernandezNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
  4. People v. AllenNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
  5. People v. JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1989

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