People v. Tineo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Sheridan, J.), rendered October 19, 1993, 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 4 A to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly granted the People’s application to close the courtroom to the extent of excluding everyone except defendant’s brother, because the officer had numerous open cases from the same area of the subject sale and continued to work in an undercover capacity there, notwithstanding…