People v. Williams

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldstein, J.), rendered December 23, 1993, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied the opportunity to be present at a material stage of the trial, i.e., an off-the-record conference regarding his decision to testify and the prosecution’s proposed cross-examination of him. In its decision denying the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict, however, the trial court found that the…