People v. Brown

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd Goodman, J.), rendered May 8, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of rape in the first degree (2 counts), sodomy in the first degree, and endangering the welfare of a child (2 counts), and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent prison terms of 9 to 18 years on the rape and sodomy convictions, and 1 year on the remaining convictions, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant waived his right to be present during the jury voir dire proceedings by repeated disruptive outbursts. Notwithstanding the court’s repeated warnings that…