People v. Lomnicki

*471Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), rendered June 30, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of three years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly granted the People’s request that potential spectators other than defendant’s family submit to a screening process before entering the courtroom during the undercover officer’s testimony. The People made a proper showing under Waller v Georgia (467 US 39 [1984]) to justify such a procedure. The officer testified…