People v. Dacosta

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Levine, J.), rendered February 10, 1992, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, robbery in the second degree, and grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant, along with an accomplice, committed a gunpoint robbery of two men waiting at a bus stop in Queens.

The record reveals that the defendant waived his presence at both the Sandoval hearing and a portion of the Wade hearing. Thus, reversal is not warranted by reason of his…