People v. Parker

Appeals from judgments of the County Court of Ulster County, rendered May 16, 1979, upon separate verdicts convicting defendants of the crime of assault in the second degree. On October 17, 1977, an inmate at the Eastern Correctional Facility at Napanoch, New York, was attacked by other inmates. Although the victim failed to identify *985his assailants, a guard at the facility testified that from a distance of one or two feet he witnessed two individuals striking the victim with what looked like steel pipes and that these two individuals were facing him during the assault. He identified these two…