People v. Torres

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

In People v Mullen (44 NY2d 1), the Court held that defendant’s right to be present at all material stages of trial was not violated when a hearing on a sworn juror’s possible disqualification was held in defendant’s absence. Although in People v Darby (75 NY2d 449, 453) we acknowledged that “greater safeguards may be desirable or even eventually held to be required depending on some future particular fact pattern,” the facts of this case do not warrant that concern. Here, the entire inquiry of the juror…