Judgment affirmed.
Defendant freely admits that, upon his arrest on an unrelated charge, he signed a police fingerprint card in his brother's name instead of his own. Nonetheless, he argued throughout the trial and on this appeal that a fingerprint card does not constitute a "written instrument" for purposes of the forgery statute. We do not agree. Penal Law § 170.00 (1) defines the term "written instrument" as follows: "`Written instrument' means any instrument...
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