People v. White

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feinberg, J.), rendered April 20, 1992, convicting him of escape in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

During the defendant’s trial on a charge of escape in the *559first degree, the defendant, in the presence of the jury, fled from the courtroom as the People’s last witness was being called to the stand.

We find no merit to the defendant’s contention that the trial court improvidently exercised its discretion in denying his application for a mistrial based on…