People v. Fludd

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene Goldberg, J.), rendered January 20, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of three counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, three counts of falsifying business records in the first degree and one count of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was not denied his right to be present at a material stage of the trial when, upon defendant’s refusal to appear in court…