Legal Opinion
People v. Smith
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 14, 1997PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Dominic R. Massaro, J.
Edward Smith is a violent predicate felon. On June 6, 1996, he entered a plea of guilty to the crime of assault in the second degree pursuant to Penal Law § 120.05 (7), a subdivision which is applicable to assaults committed inside a prison facility.1 He had been charged with three counts of this crime for viciously assaulting three correction officers with a sharpened toothbrush while being housed at the Rikers Island Correction Facility. At the time, he was incarcerated there under an earlier New York County indictment (indictment No. 1944/94) to…
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