People v. Coney

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uvil-ler, J.), rendered February 22, 2012, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of assault in the first degree and sentencing him to a term of 13 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). The element of serious physical injury was established by evidence objectively supporting the court’s finding that a razor wound to the victim’s neck running “from the middle of the bottom of the hairline at the…