People v. Byas

Judgments, Supreme Court, Bronx County, rendered November 1, 1988, after a jury trial (Ivan Warner, J.), rendered April 24, 1989, after a jury trial (Joseph Cerbone, J.), and rendered June 19, 1989 (William Wallace, III, J.), upon defendant’s pleas of guilty, convicting defendant of 11 counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to three concur*563rent terms of 7 to 14 years and eight concurrent terms of 12 Vi to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant waived the right to be present at trial by continuing in his obstreperous behavior after the trial…