PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS (2020)

Judgment of conviction (Harold Adler, J.), rendered September 15, 2016, affirmed.

The information charging disorderly conduct was jurisdictionally valid because it contained nonconclusory factual allegations establishing “every element of the offense charged and the defendant's commission thereof” (CPL 100.40[c]; see People v. Wheeler, 34 NY3d 1134, 1135 [2020]). The instrument recited that defendant was “blocking the hallway” at Lincoln Hospital with a stretcher, and that when police asked her to move, “defendant began screaming, yelling ․ PIGS, YOU CAN'T TALK HOWEVER YOU WANT TO ANYBODY”; that when the officer “attempted to walk away” defendant approached officers and stated “I SEE YOU ON THE STREETS, IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY, YOU'RE A FAGGOT, YOU'RE PIGS”; that “a crowd of persons were gathering in the hallway because of defendant's conduct”; and that defendant “then took [the officer's] identification and flicked [an officer] in the nose.” Based upon these allegations, one could reasonably infer that defendant engaged in disruptive conduct that was “either intended to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm or was reckless in creating a risk of those consequences” (see People v. Johnson, 22 NY3d 1162, 1164 [2014]; see People v. Baker, 20 NY3d 354, 360 [2013]; People v. Weaver, 16 NY3d 123 [2011]).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.

Per Curiam.