People v. Spears

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, (Arlene D. Goldberg, J.), rendered December 3, 2009, as amended January 19, 2010, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender whose prior felony conviction was a violent felony, to an aggregate term of 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

Before ordering closure of the courtroom during an undercover officer’s testimony, the court implicitly considered but rejected an alternative to closure proposed by defendant, and the court’s…