People v. Gordon

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena K. Uviller, J., at hearing; William A. Wetzel, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered June 20, 2005, convicting defendant of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of five years, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reducing the conviction to assault in the third degree and remanding for resentencing, and otherwise affirmed.

Following an altercation with the victim, the intoxicated defendant drove his car in the victim’s direction and hit him, causing serious physical injury. In his statements and trial…