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Appellate Term, First Department: September 30, 2024

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By: Hagler, P.J., Brigantti, Tisch, JJ.

23-108. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, res v. CHRIS MONTANEZ, def-app — Judgment of conviction (Jonathan Svetkey, J. at plea and sentencing; Laurie Peterson, J. at resentencing), rendered February 24, 2021, affirmed. Since defendant waived the right to be prosecuted by information, the accusatory instrument must be assessed under the reasonable cause standard applicable to a misdemeanor complaint (see People v. Dumay, 23 NY3d 518, 524 [2014]). So viewed, the accusatory instrument was jurisdictionally valid because it described facts of an evidentiary nature establishing reasonable cause to believe that defendant was guilty of the charged offense of criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation (see Penal Law §121.11[a]). The instrument recited that on October 1, 2020, defendant “use[d] his hands to apply pressure to [the victim's] neck by forcefully squeezing it” and that this conduct by defendant caused “redness, swelling and [a] scratch to [her] neck.” These factual allegations and the reasonable inferences to be drawn from them were sufficient, for pleading purposes, to establish that defendant applied pressure on the victim’s neck with the intent to impede her normal breathing (see Matter of Kenrick C., 143 AD3d 600 [2016]; People v. Peterson, 118 AD3d 1151, 1154 [2014], lv denied 24 NY3d 1087 [2014]; see also People v. Briggs, 129 AD3d 1201, 1204 [2015], lv denied 26 NY3d 1038 [2015]).

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