PEOPLE v. JAMES (2003)

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Laura Visitacion-Lewis, J.), rendered November 14, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted robbery in the second degree and assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The evidence was legally sufficient to prove the element of physical injury (see e. g. People v. Guidice, 83 N.Y.2d 630, 636, 612 N.Y.S.2d 350, 634 N.E.2d 951;  People v. Smith, 283 A.D.2d 208, 726 N.Y.S.2d 12, lv. denied 96 N.Y.2d 907, 730 N.Y.S.2d 806, 756 N.E.2d 94;  Matter of Veronica R., 268 A.D.2d 287, 702 N.Y.S.2d 23).   The victim suffered a sore left shoulder and hip for a week as the result of falling on her left side when defendant knocked her to the ground and pummeled her upper body.   She also suffered considerable and prolonged soreness, swelling and stiffness of the right side of her face, jaw, and neck as the result of being punched several times.   We have considered and rejected defendant's remaining arguments.