Legal Opinion
People v. Dixon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 28, 1996PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Pitaro, J.), rendered December 12, 1994, convicting him of robbery in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the People failed to present legally sufficient evidence to prove that he used "physical force” (Penal Law § 160.00), which was necessary to support his conviction for robbery in the third degree. We disagree. The victim testified that she experienced pain in her neck and suffered a scratch when the defendant ripped two…
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