Opinion ID: 200784
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Heading: Right to Be Present at Sentencing

Text: 60 Meléndez also claims that the court violated his right to be present during sentencing by not including the special financial disclosure condition in the oral sentencing order for the first sentence that the court imposed on August 21. Assuming arguendo that the court's failure to include the disclosure condition in its oral sentencing order violated Meléndez's right to be present at sentencing, we conclude that this error was harmless. 61 The court included the financial disclosure requirement in its oral sentencing order for Appeal No. 01-2397. Meléndez had the opportunity to either object or to provide additional arguments at that time, but he failed to do so. Given that failure, he would not have objected if the court noted the same requirement at the hearing for Appeal No. 01-2386, held immediately prior to the second sentencing hearing. The court's error, therefore, was harmless. See Rushen v. Spain, 464 U.S. 114, 119 n. 2, 104 S.Ct. 453, 78 L.Ed.2d 267 (1983) (noting that right to be present claims are subject to harmless error analysis). Accordingly, we affirm the inclusion of the special financial disclosure condition in Appeal No. 01-2386.