People v. Azor

*447Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Ann M. Donnelly, J.), rendered September 12, 2011, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of attempted assault in the third degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 45 days, affirmed.

According to their testimony at the Wade hearing, on February 3, 2010, two Rikers Island correction officers directed an inmate who was giving them a hard time to go into one of the “pens.” At that point, defendant, who was in the “search pen,” called out, “That’s my Muslim brother,” and forcefully pushed open the pen’s gate, striking one of the…