People v. Carbonaro

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Broomer, J.), rendered May 3, 1982, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On March 4, 1982, the defendant and his counsel appeared in court and were informed that trial was to begin that afternoon at 2:00 p.m., and a courtroom was assigned. The defendant failed to appear at that time, however, and the case was put off until the following day. Upon the defendant’s failure to appear at that time…