People v. Farquharson

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), rendered June 21, 2000, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Under the circumstances presented, the Supreme Court, after observation and sufficient inquiry, properly exercised its discretion in excluding a disruptive spectator from the courtroom (see Matter of Katz v Murtagh, 28 NY2d 234; People v Wood, 259…