People v. Hernandez

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Thomas, J.), rendered February 15, 1996, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find unpersuasive the defendant’s contention that he was improperly tried in absentia. The record of the hearing conducted by the court demonstrates that the defendant received and acknowledged warnings regarding the consequences of his failure to appear, that the People satisfied their obligation of making reasonable efforts to ascertain the…