People v. Ramos

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Feldman, J.), rendered May 22, 1997, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

It is well settled that a criminal defendant has a right to be present, inter alia, at all material stages of trial, at which evidence is introduced (see, People v Monroe, 90 NY2d 982; People v Williams, 85 NY2d 945). Thus, to the extent that the appellant, as opposed to any of his six codefendants, was the focus of the pretrial proceedings to determine…