People v. Shenouda

283 A.D.2d 446, 723 N.Y.S.2d 873, 2001 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4711

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: May 7, 2001
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marrus, J.), rendered June 8, 1993, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion by admitting into evidence three syringes turned over to the police. The connection between the defendant and the syringes was not so tenuous as to be improbable (see, People v Mirenda, 23 NY2d 439, 453; see also, People v Connelly, 35 NY2d 171, 174; People v Nicholson, 231 AD2d 533; People v Jennings, 173 AD2d 733; People v Morales, 161 AD2d 806). Any uncertainty as to the identification of the syringes affects only the weight to be given to them, not their admissibility (see, People v Julian, 41 NY2d 340, 343; People v Moore, 248 AD2d 405; People v Jason, 210 AD2d 256; People v Griffith, 171 AD2d 678, 680-681). Santucci, J. P., Altman, Florio and Adams, JJ., concur.