People v. Witherspoon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Aiello, J.), rendered January 28, 1985, convicting him of murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant argues that the trial court improperly ordered all spectators, except members of the press, excluded from the courtroom during reargument of his motion to set aside the verdict.
Although counsel for one of the codefendants raised an objection to the ruling by the court, the defendant’s counsel did not.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- People v. JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
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