Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Defendant contends that he was denied the right to be present at a material stage of the proceeding when he was excluded from a pretrial bench conference on his request for substitution of counsel. Because the record shows that the bench conference involved only questions of law or internal procedures of the Public Defender's Office, defendant's presence was not required...
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