People v. Sheppard

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Tompkins, J.), rendered April 16, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as second felony offender, to a term of 12V2 to 25 years, unanimously modified, as a matter of discretion, in the interest of justice, by reducing defendant’s sentence to a term of 6 to 12 years, and otherwise affirmed.

None of defendant’s claims concerning the court’s closure of the courtroom during the undercover officer’s testimony warrant reversal. The People adduced sufficient…