ALBANY - The prosecution rested its case Thursday afternoon against Jovan Underdue. He's the 32-year-old man Albany police say is responsible for last year's triple homicide at 190 Delaware Ave.

The January 2008 triple shooting rocked the neighborhood. The victims were Keynon Hankins, Victor Anderson and Bobby Jones.

Underdue was a close friend of the deceased.

During testimony this week, the prosecution presented surveillance video that they maintain shows Underdue leaving the scene, a damning confession police say Underdue gave them willingly and DNA matches the prosecution say links Underdue to the crime. Direct evidence

Albany County District Attorney David Soares hopes all this direct evidence will lead the jury to convict.

"It's how the jury receives the information and what they give weight to, but we felt confident in the information and evidence we have in putting this case forward," Soares said.

The defense agrees Underdue was at the house the night of the crime, but that he didn't pull the trigger. When their side of the case is presented in court Friday, the public defender hopes to prove that there was someone else at the scene of the crime who police failed to find.

"Either my client is the worst crook on earth or someone who knew Jovan was in custody placed that evidence, something trying to point away from themselves," defense attorney Lee Kindlon said.

The defense plans to subpoena medical personnel who treated a little boy who was at the home at the time that the shooting happened.

The little boy's mom said in court that Underdue hurt her son, but according to the defense police reports indicate an unknown assailant. The defense argues it's that unknown assailant who is responsible for the killings.