People v. Gilchrist

— Appeal by the defendant from two judgments of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Clabby, J.), both rendered July 18, 1986, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal use of drug paraphernalia in the second degree under indictment No. 1002/85, and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree under indictment No. 3203/85, upon jury verdicts, and imposing sentences.

Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.

The defendant has failed to preserve for appellate review his claim that the closure of the courtroom during the jury charge…