Opinion
January 8, 1990
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldstein, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We find that the defendant was not denied his constitutional right of confrontation by the court's compliance with defense counsel's express requests made in the presence of the defendant, to excuse the defendant from portions of the pretrial hearing and from the missing witness hearing in order to prevent the complaining witnesses from viewing him, under suggestive circumstances, prior to any in-court identification (see, People v. Parker, 57 N.Y.2d 136, 139; People v. James, 100 A.D.2d 552). Mangano, J.P., Bracken, Sullivan and Balletta, JJ., concur.