Wachtler, J. The evidence clearly established that the defendant had committed a vicious, depraved and nearly fatal assault on his 17-year-old victim in March of 1970, and was sufficient to sustain the conviction for assault in the second degree (Penal Law, § 120.05). Since the assault was directed at an “ intimate part ” of the victim’s body and was apparently motivated by a sadistic desire to obtain sexual gratificatio…
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