| People v Marti (David) |
| 2019 NY Slip Op 50719(U) [63 Misc 3d 148(A)] |
| Decided on May 14, 2019 |
| Appellate Term, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports. |
Defendant appeals from a judgment of the Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County (Joanne D. Quinones, J. at plea; Neil E. Ross, J. at sentencing), rendered March 29, 2013, convicting him, upon a plea of guilty, of assault in the third degree, and imposing sentence.
Per Curiam.
Judgment of conviction (Joanne D. Quinones, J. at plea; Neil E. Ross, J. at sentencing), rendered March 29, 2013, affirmed.
The accusatory instrument was not jurisdictionally defective. It charged all the elements of third-degree assault (see Penal Law § 120.00[1]), and set forth sufficient factual allegations to warrant the conclusion that the victim suffered a "physical injury," i.e., "substantial pain" (Penal Law § 10.00[9]). Accepting the pleaded allegations as true, a trier of fact could infer that when defendant struck the complainant "about the stomach multiple times with a closed fist," he caused substantial pain (see People v Henderson, 92 NY2d 677, 680 [1999]; People v Mercado, 94 AD3d 502 [2012], lv denied 19 NY3d 999 [2012]; People v Lang, 81 AD3d 538 [2011], lv denied 16 NY3d 896 [2011]), a term which simply means "more than slight or trivial pain" (People v Chiddick, 8 NY3d 445, 447 [2007]; see Penal Law § 10.00[9]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.