People v. Taylor

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feinberg, J.), rendered May 11, 1992, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s contention that his fundamental right to be present at all material stages of trial was violated by his absence at a conference, held between the trial court, the People, and the defense counsel. At the conference held predominantly on the record but in the…