People v. Lopez

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kreindler, J.), rendered February 3, 1992, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

There is no merit to the defendant’s claim of a violation of his statutory and constitutional right to be present during a sidebar between the court, the prosecutor, defense counsel, and a prospective juror concerning the possible disqualification of that prospective juror if he had heard the…