People v. Wiggins

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first and third degrees, arising from the discovery, pursuant to a search warrant, of nearly six kilograms of cocaine in a dresser in a room rented to defendant.

Supreme Court did not err in determining, following a reconstruction hearing, that defendant was present at the Sandoval conference, held in the courtroom in the absence of the *919court reporter (see, People v Terry, 225 AD2d 1058). Although the court reporter’s notes…