People v. King

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golia, J.), rendered February 9, 1995, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The court informed the defendant and a codefendant that unless they waived their right to attend sidebar conferences, no such conferences would be held so as to avoid what the court…