People v. Howard

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Patricia Anne Williams, J.), rendered February 19, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of bail jumping in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Since the court sustained defense counsel’s objections to the prosecutor’s misstatements regarding the method by which the court had notified defense counsel of a change in the date on which defendant, who had been released on parole, was scheduled to return to court, and since the jury is presumed to have followed the court’s instruction to…