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- Title: Serratore v. People
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 30, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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In my view, it was absolutely improper for the People to introduce into evidence the defendants fingerprint card taken by the Denver Police Department in 1959. Clearly, the inference that had to be drawn by the jury was that the defendant had been arrested at a prior time and this in view of the universal rule that prior arrests are not admissible for any purpose whatsoever. There was no impediment to the taking of fingerprints of the defendant in connection with this case after his arrest. It was, therefore, reversible error, in my view, to submit the 1959 Denver Police fingerprint record to the jury.