On this appeal, we must decide whether defendant's presence was required at a side-bar conference held outside his earshot to determine whether his direct testimony had "opened the door" to cross-examination about the underlying facts of a prior conviction. Such questioning had been precluded pursuant to a pretrial Sandoval ruling. We conclude that the side-bar conference was not a material...
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