People v. Jackson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Levine, J.), rendered October 31, 1991, 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 reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. The facts have been considered and are determined to have been established.

The defendant contends that his conviction should be reversed since he was not present at the Sandoval hearing. We agree. The defendant’s presence at the Sandoval hearing would…