Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court properly denied the defendant's request to charge assault in the second degree as a lesser-included offense of assault in the first degree. There was no reasonable view of the evidence to support a finding that the victim sustained "physical injury" but not "serious physical injury" when he was slashed in the face with a box cutter by the defendant (see, CPL 300.50 [1]; People v Glover,
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