People v. Santos

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered January 17, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him as a persistent violent felony offender to a term of 10 years to life imprisonment, unanimously aflirmed.

Counsel’s acquiescence in the court’s suggestion that, in the face of defendant’s having absconded, a court officer be directed to inform the deliberating jury that their request for information as to defendant’s height was not contained in the record, manifested counsel’s consent to the…