People v. Arnold

*240Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Arlene D. Goldberg, J.), rendered April 6, 2006, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony drug offender, to a term of four years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant challenges the court’s exclusion of his adult son during the testimony of an undercover officer. At a Hinton hearing, the People made a proper showing under Waller v Georgia (467 US 39 [1984]) to justify exclusion of the general public. At least as a matter of federal constitutional law,…