People v. Perez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: We reject defendant’s contention that the People failed to establish that Ms victim suffered serious physical injury. Serious physical injury includes a “serious and protracted disfigurement” (Penal Lav/ § 10.00 [10]). Here, the evidence showed that defendant inflicted knife wounds on the victim’s back, chin and ear. One of the wounds was a deep laceration of the back that cut into the muscle tissue and required more than one layer of sutures to close. The victim received 50 sutures to close the back laceration and three or four sutures to close the…
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