People v. Brown

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Daniel FitzGerald, J.), rendered December 22, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 8 to 16 years, unanimously affirmed.

The record fails to support defendant’s claim that he was deprived of his right to be present at sidebar conferences with prospective jurors. When, at the outset of jury selection, defendant invoked his right to be present for sidebar conferences, the court clearly instructed him that this request…