People v. Marti (David)

• Court: Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
• Decided: May 14, 2019
• Docket: 2019 NYSlipOp 50719(U)
• Status: Published

Opinion

The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

against

David Marti, Defendant-Appellant.

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.

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Decision Date: May 14, 2019