People v. Kirkland

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fred Eggert, J.), rendered March 7, 1991, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 3V% to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.

The presence of neither defendant nor counsel was required at sidebar discussions where the trial court posed questions to unsworn prospective jurors relating solely to the qualifications, in a general sense, of those individuals to sit as jurors, matters which are solely for the court (People v Sloan, 79 NY2d 386,…