People v. Jennings

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Clabby, J.), rendered July 8, 1986, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The record establishes that trying the defendant in absentia did not constitute an abuse of discretion (People v Parker, 57 NY2d 136). The defendant waived his right to be present at trial by failing, after its commencement and following a warning that trial would proceed without him, to return to court until lVi years…