People v. Bigus
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Snellenburg, J.), rendered November 5, 1982, convicting him of forgery in the second degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.
Judgment affirmed.
Defendant freely admits that, upon his arrest on an unrelated charge, he signed a police fingerprint card in his brother’s name instead of his own. Nonetheless, he argued throughout the trial and on this appeal that a fingerprint card does not constitute a "written instrument” for purposes of the forgery statute. We do not agree. Penal Law § 170.00 (1) defines the…
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