People v. Bueno

OPINION OF THE COURT

Read, J.

The issue in this appeal is whether the evidence adduced at trial was legally sufficient to establish that defendant Christian *162Bueno acted “[w]ith intent to prevent” an emergency medical technician (EMT) “from performing a lawful duty” when he caused an EMT to suffer physical injury (see Penal Law § 120.05 [3]). As the uniformed EMT was climbing into the driver’s side of an ambulance, defendant blindsided him with a blow to the head, threw him to the ground and pummeled him repeatedly about the face and head. The EMT and his partner on a two-person ambulance crew…