People v. Tapia
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Miriam Best, J.), rendered February 28, 2013, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted assault in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 5 years, with 3 years’ postrelease supervision, affirmed.
Defendant contends that his conviction is legally insufficient and was against the weight of the evidence. Legal sufficiency and weight of evidence review are two standards of intermediate appellate review. Although related, “each requires a discrete analysis” (People v Bleakley, 69 NY2d 490, 495 [1987]). In reviewing whether a verdict is…
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