People v. Blunt

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rena Uviller, J., at hearing; Charles Tejada, J., at mistrial; William Leibovitz, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered March 18, 1998, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly declared a mistrial over defendant’s objection because his outbursts in the presence of the jury created a manifest necessity for a mistrial (see, Matter of Enright v Siedlecki, 59 NY2d 195; People v McElveen, 234…