Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2002

People v. Davis

People v. Davis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 15, 2002
299 A.D.2d 874; 749 N.Y.S.2d 204; 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 10941
People v. Davis

Opinion of the Court

Appeal from an order of Onondaga County Court (Fahey, J.), entered January 17, 2002, which denied defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 440.30 (1-a) for DNA testing of certain evidence from a trial in 1978.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.

Memorandum: County Court properly denied defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 440.30 (1-a) for DNA testing of certain *875evidence from a trial in 1978. Defendant failed to meet his burden of establishing that the evidence is still in existence (see People v Ahlers, 285 AD2d 664, lv denied 97 NY2d 701; see also People v Logan, 291 AD2d 459, lv denied 98 NY2d 638). Present — Pine, J.P., Wisner, Hurlbutt, Kehoe and Burns, JJ.

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