Opinion
November 25, 1991
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.).
Ordered that the appeal is dismissed.
The record indicates that defendant's waiver of his right to appeal in exchange for a resentencing after he absconded and was sentenced in absentia was voluntary and we find meritless his claim that he was coerced (see, People v. Seaberg, 74 N.Y.2d 1). We note that the resentence agreement resulted in more than a halving of the initial sentence imposed in absentia. Given the defendant's history of arrests on similar charges and a violation of probation, the resentence provides little basis for complaint in any event (see, People v. Kazepis, 101 A.D.2d 816; cf., People v. Ruquet, 121 A.D.2d 482, 483). Kunzeman, J.P., Sullivan, Balletta and Copertino, JJ., concur.