People v. Gutt

Defendant’s legal sufficiency claim is unpreserved and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we reject it on the merits. We also find that the verdict was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). A chain of circumstantial evidence amply supported the jury’s conclusion that it was defendant, and not another person involved in the fight, who stabbed the victim. We note that one of the links in this chain was a knife recovered from defendant’s immediate vicinity at the time of his arrest that appeared to…