People v. Baez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Carey, J., at plea and sentence), rendered February 27, 1990, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2 to 6 years, to run consecutive to a previously imposed aggregate sentence of 271A years to life, unanimously affirmed.

On July 29, 1988, the defendant struck the complainant on the throat with a metal "slapper”, a tool used in breaking into cars, when the complainant interrupted the defendant’s attempt to remove complainant’s ignition switch. At the sentencing, IV2 years…