People v. Suazo

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Patricia Anne Williams, J.), rendered March 27, 2012, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of attempted assault in the third degree, attempted criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation, menacing in the third degree and attempted criminal contempt in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 60 days, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant argues that he was constitutionally entitled to a jury trial, even though he was only being tried for class B misdemeanors carrying maximum sentences of 90 days, because as a noncitizen…