People v. Valdes

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered April 30, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of auto stripping in the second degree and criminal possession of burglar’s tools, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2 to 4 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant, who had engaged in a pattern of outbursts at various points in the proceedings, and who had been sufficiently and frequently warned that further disruptions woiild lead to his removal from the courtroom, was properly removed when he…