Does a defendant who fails to appear at trial have a right to be present at trial?

Citing People v. Parker, 57 N.Y.2d 136, 454 N.Y.S.2d 967, 440 N.E.2d 1313, supra, each of the defendants contends that he did not waive his right to be present at trial because he was not expressly warned of the consequences of his failure to reappear in court. In Parker, supra, the court held that a defendant who had received notice of the date for trial did not waive her right to be present by voluntarily failing to appear on the assigned date where she had not been warned that the trial would proceed in her absence ( People v. Parker, supra, pp. 138, 141, 454 N.Y.S.2d 967, 440 N.E.2d 1313). The court recognized, however, that the right may be lost, under certain circumstances, as in Taylor v. United States, 414 U.S. 17, 94 S.Ct. 194, 38 L.Ed.2d 174.