People v. Cooper

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (John Cataldo., J.), rendered March 22, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The People made a sufficiently particularized showing to warrant closure of the courtroom during the testimony of the undercover officers, as the evidence at the Hinton hearing established that each undercover officer continued to work in the area of defendant’s arrest, each had pending cases in the…