People v. Baker

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Michael A. Gross, J.), rendered May 12, 2010, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 20 years to life, and order, same court and Justice, entered on or about September 3, 2014, which denied his CPL 440.10 motion to vacate the judgment, unanimously affirmed.

The court did not violate defendant’s right to be present at a material stage of trial when it excluded him, but not his attorney, from a hearing regarding protective orders delaying certain discovery. Defendant has not shown that his…