Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1993

People v. Torres

People v. Torres
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided October 28, 1993
197 A.D.2d 488; 603 N.Y.S.2d 11; 1993 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10070
People v. Torres

Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme, Bronx County (Joseph Fisch, J.), rendered November 13, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of assault in the first degree, and *489sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Inasmuch as defendant was given advance notice that the last page of the incident report was missing, and the Correction Captain who had prepared the report was questioned about the disappearance of the page at both the pretrial hearing and the trial, defendant has not established that he was prejudiced by the failure to preserve the entire report (see, People v Morton, 189 AD2d 488, 492-493). Accordingly, the trial court did not err in refusing to charge that a negative inference could be drawn because of this "missing evidence” (see generally, People v Banch, 80 NY2d 610, 616). Concur—Wallach, J. P., Ross, Asch and Rubin, JJ.

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