People v. O'Hagan

— Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Allen Alpert, J.), rendered December 14, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him to one day in prison and a $2000 fine, unanimously affirmed.

The complainant, a bicycle messenger charged with resisting arrest, testified that while he was handcuffed in a holding cell, defendant, a police officer, entered the cell and beat him, knocking his head into the cell bars four or five times. Complainant was eventually brought to the hospital, where he received stitches for his head injuries. His…