People v. Slavik

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Cacciabaudo, J.), rendered March 19, 1997, convicting him of rape in the first degree (two counts), sodomy in the first degree, and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant argues that the Supreme Court deprived him of his constitutional and statutory right to be present at a material stage of the trial and committed reversible error when it allowed the jury, at its request, to view certain trial exhibits in his absence. However, the…