People v. Acevedo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Mazur, J.), rendered September 6, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and loitering in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 71/2 to 15 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of reducing the sentence for loitering to 3 months, and otherwise affirmed.

Defendant was properly tried and sentenced in absentia af*340ter he failed to appear on the second day of trial and the People established…