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CRIME OF ATTEMPTED ASSAULT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A LEGAL IMPOSSIBILITY (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department vacated defendant’s conviction of attempted assault in the second degree, noting that the crime is a legal impossibility:

The crime of attempted assault in the second degree is a legal impossibility (see Penal Law § 120.05[3]; People v Campbell, 72 NY2d 602, 605…). As correctly conceded by the People, the inclusion of that nonexistent crime in the superior court information constituted a nonwaivable jurisdictional defect, necessitating vacatur of the defendant’s conviction of attempted assault in the second degree, vacatur of the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissal of that count of the superior court information … . People v Jones, 2018 NY Slip Op 04565, Second Dept 6-20-18

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