People v. Polite

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Carroll, J.), rendered October 18, 1999, convicting him of attempted murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s claim that his presence was required at a sidebar conference is unpreserved for appellate review (cf., People v Gray, 86 NY2d 10, 18). In any event, his presence was not required since the purpose of the conference was to enable the court to make rulings as to the relevance of a proposed line of questioning by the prosecutor,…