People v. Coward

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Kase, J.), rendered May 4, 2005, convicting him of burglary in the second degree, criminal contempt in the first degree (four counts), resisting arrest, and assault in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s argument that the judgment should be reversed because a portion of the voir dire proceedings was not transcribed is without merit. “ ‘Although we agree that verbatim recordation of the trial proceedings is the better practice, unless…