People v. Sowell

*387Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald A. Zweibel, J.), rendered July 17, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree (two counts), obstructing governmental administration in the second degree and resisting arrest, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of four years, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence. The evidence satisfied the “lawful duty” element of the applicable theory of second-degree assault (Penal Law § 120.05 [3]), the…