People v. Royal

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Carroll, J.), rendered November 5, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts), criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Following a Hinton hearing (see, People v Hinton, 31 NY2d 71, pert denied 410 US 911), the court proposed that a court officer be posted outside the door of the…