People v. Chestnut

*464Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Belfi, J.), rendered June 22, 2004, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant was not deprived of his right to be present at trial by his exclusion from an informal conference with respect to the waiver by a witness of his privilege against self-incrimination. The conference from which the defendant was excluded was an…