OPINION OF THE COURT Per Curiam. Defendant has been convicted of manslaughter in the first *472 degree (Penal Law § 125.20 [1]), a charge arising from an altercation in which he stabbed Raymond Nelson with a "Ninja knife”. He seeks reversal of the judgment because (1) he was absent from material stages of the trial proceedings and, (2) the court failed…
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