People v. Velez

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Efrain Alvarado, J.), rendered June 29, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of nine years, held in abeyance, and the matter remanded to the Supreme Court for a reconstruction hearing as to whether defendant knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waived his right to attend robing room conferences with prospective jurors.

Prior to the commencement of jury selection, the trial court stated in the robing room, in the absence of defendant,…