Paper v. Paper

How courts have described this case

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• recounting the history of New York constitutional and statutory guarantees of right to be present and compiling cases
• finding voluntary waiver where defendant refused to attend trial as part of an inmate-wide boycott of the courts
• finding voluntary waiver where defendant refused to attend trial as part of an inmate-wide boycott of the courts
• defendant in custody is capable of knowing and voluntary waiver
• defendant in custody is capable of knowing and voluntary waiver
• defendant who is in custody may waive right to be present at trial, but waiver will not be operative if there is “slightest hint of official connivance or obstruction with respect to the defendant’s right to be present”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).