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PEOPLE v. TAVERAS

10 N.Y.3d 227 (2008)

885 N.E.2d 181

855 N.Y.S.2d 417

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JOSE MARTIN TAVERAS, Also Known as JOSE MARTIN TAVARES, Also Known as JOSE TAVERAS, Appellant. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ANTHONY JONES, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 18, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Jonathan M. Kirshbaum and Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant in the first above-entitled action.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York City (Nicole Beder and Alan Gadlin of counsel), for respondent in the first above-entitled action.

Center for Appellate Litigation, New York City (Peter Theis and Robert S. Dean of counsel), for appellant in the second above-entitled action.

Robert T. Johnson, District Attorney, Bronx (Jean Soo Park and Joseph N. Ferdenzi of counsel), for respondent in the second above-entitled action.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges CIPARICK, GRAFFEO, READ, SMITH and JONES concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PIGOTT, J.

In these unrelated criminal proceedings, defendants Jose Martin Taveras and Anthony Jones appeal from trial judgments of conviction and resultant sentences imposed "in absentia." Notices of appeal were timely filed in both instances, but no effort to perfect or dismiss the appeals was made during the time defendants were fugitives.

Defendant Taveras was captured eight years...

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