People v. McCullough

—Case held, decision reserved and matter remitted to Supreme Court for further proceedings in accordance with the following Memorandum: We agree with defendant that, "[b]efore proceeding in defendant’s absence, the court should have made inquiry and recited on the record the facts and reasons it relied upon [to determine whether] defendant’s absence was deliberate” (People v Brooks, 75 NY2d 898, 899, mot to amend remittitur granted 76 NY2d 746; see also, People v Parker, 57 NY2d 136, 142). The record establishes that, when the suppression hearing commenced, the court noted defendant’s absence…