Legal Opinion
People v. Sykes
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 29, 1993PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J.), rendered February 7, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2 Vi to 5 years and 2 to 4 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.
Contrary to defendant’s argument, the evidence that he struck the victim, a bystander, with a piece of concrete that he picked up from the ground and threw at a man with whom he had just been arguing was sufficient to establish his…
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