N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law Section 60.60
Rules of evidence

  • certificates concerning judgments of conviction and fingerprints

1.

A certificate issued by a criminal court, or the clerk thereof, certifying that a judgment of conviction against a designated defendant has been entered in such court, constitutes presumptive evidence of the facts stated in such certificate.

2.

A report of a public servant charged with the custody of official fingerprint records which contains a certification that the fingerprints of a designated person who has previously been convicted of an offense are identical with those of a defendant in a criminal action, constitutes presumptive evidence of the fact that such defendant has previously been convicted of such offense.

Source: Section 60.60 — Rules of evidence; certificates concerning judgments of conviction and fingerprints, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/CPL/60.­60 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 2, 2023).

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