People v. Ricketts

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Marras, J.), rendered December 9, 2004, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

A criminal defendant has a constitutional and statutory right to be present at all material stages of the trial (see People v Rolle, 4 AD3d 542 [2004]). A defendant, however, must provide an adequate record for determining whether he or she was wrongfully excluded from a material stage of the trial (see People v Borzouye, 265 AD2d 419 [1999]; People v…