People v. Salazar

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered April 2, 1987, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find that the trial court did not err in sentencing the defendant in absentia. The record discloses that the defendant voluntarily failed to appear on the date set for sentencing, despite the fact that he had been warned of the consequences of his failure to reappear in accordance with the standards enunciated in…