People v Buckley
2013 NY Slip Op 02671 [105 AD3d 588]
April 18, 2013
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 29, 2013


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
John Buckley, Appellant.

[*1] Steven Banks, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Allen Fallek of counsel), for appellant.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Rebecca L. Johannesen of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (George R. Villegas, J.), rendered January 19, 2010, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted assault in the third degree, and sentencing him to a conditional discharge, unanimously affirmed.

The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence and was not against the weight of the evidence (see People v Danielson, 9 NY3d 342, 348-349 [2007]). There is no basis for disturbing the jury's determinations concerning identification and credibility. The fact that the jury acquitted defendant of robbery and larceny charges does not warrant a different conclusion (see People v Rayam, 94 NY2d 557 [2000]), particularly since the jury could have found that defendant was correctly identified as the victim's assailant, but that there was insufficient proof that defendant took property. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Acosta, Freedman, Richter and Gische, JJ.