People v. Powell

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Leibovitz, J.), rendered December 15, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree, robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s actions regarding defendant’s temporary removal from the courtroom for disruptive behavior were proper exercises of discretion (see, Illinois v Allen, 397 US 337). A removed defendant is entitled to reclaim the…