People v. Andrew

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant was convicted of assault in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, arising from an incident in a rooming house where both he and the complainant resided. Defendant interposed a defense of justification. The trial court admitted complainant’s hospital record into evidence, but redacted a notation by a resident physician stating that it was impossible to obtain the complainant’s consent to surgery because he was too drunk. Defendant claims that the redaction of this information was error. We note,…