State v. Pierre

Miguel Pierre appeals his first degree assault conviction. A rational trier of fact could find that a *380defendant’s repeated kicking of a defenseless victim in the head is “force or means likely to produce great bodily harm or death” in violation of the first degree assault statute. RCW 9A.36.011(l)(a). We affirm.

FACTS

On March 27, 1999, Said Abasheikh, a 16-year-old boy, rode his bicycle to a store in his Seattle neighborhood. Miguel Pierre and his three friends, Pulefano Ativalu, Michael Gallow, and Michael Anderson, confronted Abasheikh outside the store. Gallow struck Abasheikh with a stick…