People v. Sanchez

—Judgment unanimously reversed on the law and new trial granted. Memorandum: The record of the reconstruction hearing (see, People v Mitchell, 189 AD2d 337) establishes that defendant was not present in chambers at the Ventimiglia conference. At that conference, the trial court ruled that the People could introduce that part of defendant’s statement admitting a prior uncharged drug sale if defendant raised the defenses of agency or entrapment or attacked the voluntariness of the statement. Reversal is required because defendant was denied her right to be present at a material stage of the…