People v. Angel

Opinion by

Judge STERNBERG.

The determinative issue on this appeal is whether the trial court’s action in excluding most of the public from the courtroom during the cross-examination of the prosecution’s key witness deprived the defendant of his right to public trial. We conclude that it did not. There being no other error, we affirm the judgment of conviction.

During a party, a confrontation developed between two groups of guests. Some members of one group left, but later they and others, including the defendant, returned and several violent acts took place. One such act was the stabbing of a…