We need not determine whether defendant preserved for review his challenge to the legal sufficiency of the evidence to establish the physical injury element of second-degree robbery. Even assuming it is preserved for review by the statement the court made in explaining its verdict, the evidence was legally sufficient. Defendant bit the victim's hand, causing an impairment of her physical condition (see Penal Law § 10.00 [9]). The forceful bite, which tore through...
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