Commonwealth v. French

The majority opinion reasons that the *480Commonwealth’s case consisted of not only latent fingerprint evidence, but also additional corroborative evidence that when taken together permitted the judge to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant’s fingerprint was impressed at the time the crime was committed. See Commonwealth v. Morris, 422 Mass. 254, 257 (1996); Commonwealth v. Baptista, 32 Mass. App. Ct. 910, 911 (1992). I read the record differently.

There is no evidence in this case linking the defendant to the break-in of the market other than a latent fingerprint found on a…