People v. Aruz

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered September 4, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second *593violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 years and 2V2 to 5 years, respectively, unanimously reversed, on the law, and the matter remanded for a new trial.

Defendant was indicted and tried for the crimes of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree as a result of an incident in which he cut the…