Opinion
2000-01257
Submitted May 21, 2002.
June 18, 2002.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Knipel, J.), rendered January 25, 2000, convicting her of grand larceny in the third degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (six counts), and unauthorized practice of pharmacy, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (Michelle Mogal of counsel), for appellant.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, New York, N.Y. (Robin A. Forshaw and Deborah F. Nathan of counsel), for respondent.
Before: A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J., DAVID S. RITTER, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, LEO F. McGINITY, JJ.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant has failed to satisfy her burden of coming forward with substantial evidence to rebut the presumption of regularity that attaches to all criminal proceedings (see People v. Robinson, 191 A.D.2d 523) with respect to her claim that she was deprived of her right to be present at the Sandoval/Ventimiglia hearing (see People v. Ventimiglia, 52 N.Y.2d 350; People v. Sandoval, 34 N.Y.2d 371; People v. Firrira, 258 A.D.2d 666; People v. Robinson, supra; People v. Pichardo, 168 A.D.2d 577).
PRUDENTI, P.J., RITTER, KRAUSMAN and McGINITY, JJ., concur.