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ALTHOUGH THE VICTIM WAS SHOT AND THE BULLET PASSED THROUGH HIS LEG, THE PROOF REQUIREMENTS FOR SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY WERE NOT MET; ASSAULT SECOND CONVICTIONS REDUCED TO ASSAULT THIRD (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined that although the victim had been shot, the evidence of serious physical injury was insufficient. The court reduced the assault second convictions to assault third:

The victim asserted that the bullet entered through the back of the leg just below the kneecap and exited through the front of the leg just above the kneecap. * * *

There was no evidence that the victim lost consciousness after being shot or that a vital organ was damaged. Nor was there any proof, lay or medical, indicating that the victim’s injuries caused a substantial risk of death or were life threatening” … . Similarly, the evidence failed to show “that the victim suffered from a protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily organ” … . Although there was testimony regarding the long-term effects of the gunshot wound, no corresponding medical documentation was submitted as proof of the link between the impairment and the initial injury … . Further, although the victim testified that he had two circular scars from the bullet, this testimony alone is not sufficient to support a finding of serious disfigurement … . To prove that the victim’s scars were a serious disfigurement would have required the People to make a record of it, via either a photograph or a detailed description; here, however, the testimony establishes “no more than that the victim had two scars” … .

Although the evidence “falls short of satisfying the statutory definition of serious ‘physical injury'” … , there is no dispute that the victim sustained a “physical injury” (Penal Law § 10.00 [9]). People v Smith, 2021 NY Slip Op 02564, Third Dept 4-29-21

 

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