People v. Machado

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

People v. Machado

300 A.D.2d 16, 749 N.Y.S.2d 871, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11572

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedDecember 3, 2002

StatusPublished

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People v. Machado, 300 A.D.2d 16, 749 N.Y.S.2d 871, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11572 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2002).

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—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Stone, J.), rendered May 3, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 15 years and one year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s mistrial motion, made following the prosecutor’s improper question to a witness, since the court’s thorough curative instructions, which the jury is presumed to have understood and followed, were sufficient to prevent any prejudice (see People v Santiago, 52 NY2d 865).

The court properly refused to submit assault in the third degree as a lesser included offense. The victim sustained a stab wound that could only have been caused by a knife or other sharp object. Even if fully credited by the jury, defendant’s own testimony, taken together with the nature of the victim’s injury, established that defendant used a screwdriver or other sharp object that constituted a dangerous instrument (Penal Law § 10.00 [13]) in that it was used in a manner that rendered it capable of causing serious physical injury (see People v Valentin, 255 AD2d 126).

We have considered and rejected defendant’s other contentions. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Saxe, Sullivan and Rosenberger, JJ.

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—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Stone, J.), rendered May 3, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 15 years and one year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s mistrial motion, made following the prosecutor’s improper question to a witness, since the court’s thorough curative instructions, which the jury is presumed to have understood and followed, were sufficient to prevent any prejudice (see People v Santiago, 52 NY2d 865).

The court properly refused to submit assault in the third degree as a lesser included offense. The victim sustained a stab wound that could only have been caused by a knife or other sharp object. Even if fully credited by the jury, defendant’s own testimony, taken together with the nature of the victim’s injury, established that defendant used a screwdriver or other sharp object that constituted a dangerous instrument (Penal Law § 10.00 [13]) in that it was used in a manner that rendered it capable of causing serious physical injury (see People v Valentin, 255 AD2d 126).

We have considered and rejected defendant’s other contentions. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Saxe, Sullivan and Rosenberger, JJ.

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300 A.D.2d 16, 749 N.Y.S.2d 871, 2002 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 11572, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/people-v-machado-nyappdiv-2002.

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