The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant was not entitled to be present at the side-bar conference held to determine whether his testimony "opened the door" to cross-examination about the underlying facts of a prior conviction previously precluded under a Sandoval ruling. The conference was not a material stage of the trial requiring defendant's presence because the issue...
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