People v. Perez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered November 14, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The courtroom was properly closed during the undercover officer’s testimony since a specific link between the undercover officer’s safety concerns and open-court testimony in this particular case was clearly established (People v Ayala, 90 NY2d 490, 498, cert denied — US —, 118 S Ct…