Case ID: ad2d_134/html/0306-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Gary Woods, Appellant.
   Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Zelman, J.), rendered May 20, 1986, convicting him of burglary in the third degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Although there was testimony by a police fingerprint expert which could have led to an inference by the jury that the defendant had a prior criminal record, the court’s immediate curative instruction corrected any prejudicial effect that evidence may have had (see, People v Tisdale, 114 AD2d 869). In any event, the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt as the evidence of the defendant’s guilt was overwhelming (see, People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230). Brown, J. P., Rubin, Kooper and Sullivan, JJ., concur.