Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit May 12, 1986, 293, Docket 85-1141 (United States v. Ramon Sanchez)

PIERCE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Robert L. Carter, Judge, entered as to Ramon Sanchez on April 16, 1985, after a jury trial

in absentia

on November 8, 1984, convicting him and a co-defendant of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C.