People v. Kidd

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant was convicted, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree (Penal Law § 125.20 [1]) for stabbing a young woman in the back with a knife, causing her death. The stabbing occurred following an altercation between two groups of young people in a shopping plaza parking lot. Defendant admitted to the police that she had stabbed a girl with a knife, although she believed that she had stabbed her in the leg.

We reject the contention of defendant that she was deprived of her right to be present at all material stages of trial when…