Case Name: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Steven Jimenez, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2017-11-30
Citations: 155 A.D.3d 591
Docket Number: 
Parties: The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Steven Jimenez, Appellant.
Judges: Concur— Renwick, J.P., Manzanet-Daniels, Mazzarelli, Kahn and Moulton, JJ.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 155
Pages: 591–591

Head Matter:
The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Steven Jimenez, Appellant.
[64 NYS3d 512]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Juan M. Merchan, J.), rendered June 24, 2014, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.
The evidence was legally sufficient to establish that the injury inflicted by defendant when he slashed the victim across the face with a box cutter caused serious disfigurement, thereby satisfying the serious physical injury element of first-degree assault (see People v McKinnon, 15 NY3d 311, 315-316 [2010]). The People presented evidence that the victim sustained a laceration to the right side of his face that ran from his forehead to his jaw, and that the laceration resulted in a permanent scar, which the jury observed. "[V]iewed as a whole, and especially considering the prominent location of the wound on the face, [the evidence] support [s] the inference that at the time of trial the scarf ] remained seriously disfiguring under the McKinnon standard" (People v Coote, 110 AD3d 485, 485 [1st Dept 2013], lv denied 22 NY3d 1198 [2014]).
We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence.
Concur— Renwick, J.P., Manzanet-Daniels, Mazzarelli, Kahn and Moulton, JJ.