People v. Rumaner

During the early morning hours of June 6, 1972, a fracas erupted at My Apartment, a bar in the City of Binghamton, over the owner’s desire to close the bar before a patron had finished his drink. In the course of the fight, Gordon Bloom, the complainant, who was employed as a bouncer and occasional bartender, was grabbed from behind as he went towards the phone to call the police, knocked down and kicked in the face 10 or 12 times by the defendant, who was wearing heavy leather boots. As a result of the assault, Bloom suffered a fracture of the floor of the orbit of his left eye which caused…