People v. Quinones

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.) rendered December 11, 1991, convicting defendant, upon a jury verdict, of five counts of robbery in the first degree, and sentencing him as a second felony offender to five consecutive terms of 12 Vz to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The People’s evidence, establishing defendant’s perpetration of the five charged gunpoint robberies, was overwhelming. The record developed by the hearing court conclusively establishes that defendant, through counsel, affirmatively waived his right to be present during a portion of the Wade hearing,…