People v. Clark

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Saratoga County (Scarano, J.), rendered March 3, 2011, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and making a punishable false written statement, and the violation of unlawful possession of marihuana (two counts).

On the evening of December 10, 2009, defendant, his girlfriend, Sharon Capone, and her cousin were at defendant’s residence in the City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County when Jerson Vargas and his girlfriend, among others,…