People v. Mason

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered December 10, 1992, 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 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The undercover officers’ Hinton hearing testimony "established the necessary spatial and temporal relationship among the courthouse, the location of defendant’s arrest, and the anticipated geographic location of [their] future investigative work” to warrant closure of the courtroom (People v Brown, *150214…