People v. Williams

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Roger S. Hayes, J.), rendered November 5, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348 [2007]). The element of physical injury was established by evidence supporting an inference that the victim’s injuries were more than mere “petty slaps, shoves, kicks and the like” (Matter of Philip…