Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.
Defendant, who absconded after his suppression motions were denied and was told by the court that his trial would begin the next day, "unambiguously indicate[d] a defiance of the processes of law sufficient to effect a forfeiture" of his right to be present, and was not improperly tried in absentia (People v Sanchez,
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