People v. McDuffie

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Sudolnik, J.), rendered July 26, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The element of serious physical injury was established by the victim’s testimony, corroborated by medical testimony, that by the time of trial she still had difficulties in the use of her arm as a result of the assault, including…