An initial reading of the fingerprint analysis in the Lorrenzo Wade felony burglary case is inconclusive and doesn't show definable prints – a development that would be good news for the San Diego State basketball standout.
However, Wade's attorney, Richard Muir, said he has yet to see a direct report on the fingerprints and declined to comment on it.
Wade was scheduled to be in court today for a preliminary hearing, but that hearing might be pushed back as much as a few weeks because of a scheduling conflict for the prosecutor handling the case.
Wade has been suspended indefinitely pending the outcome of the case. He is accused of burglary stemming from a Sept. 21 incident in which he and another man, Brian Ware, entered a woman's apartment near SDSU around 3 a.m. Muir said Ware took the woman's flat-screen television out of the apartment, not Wade.
With inconclusive fingerprint analysis, Wade's chances of having his charge reduced to a misdemeanor likely have increased, though it's unclear how prosecutors might want to proceed and when. If prints from Wade had been found on the television, prosecutors could have better argued he was involved in taking the TV from the apartment.
Muir said Wade and Ware went to the woman's apartment to get her to move her car from a parking space they wanted. Muir said when Wade knocked, the door opened by itself, and they entered.
Brent Schrotenboer: (619) 293-1368; brent.schrotenboer@uniontrib.com
