People v Vasquez
2006 NY Slip Op 00321 [25 AD3d 465]
January 19, 2006
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 22, 2006


The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Juan Vasquez, Appellant.

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Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Philip M. Grella, J.), rendered April 15, 2004, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly declined to submit assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05 [2]) as a lesser included offense of assault in the first degree (Penal Law § 120.10 [1]). The evidence established that defendant heated a pan of oil on a stove and deliberately threw it in the victim's face, causing protracted disfigurement. There was no reasonable view of the evidence, viewed most favorably to defendant, that he only caused, or only intended to cause, nonserious physical injury (see e.g. People v Franco, 271 AD2d 383 [2000], lv denied 95 NY2d 865 [2000]). Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Friedman, Gonzalez and Catterson, JJ.