People v. Acevedo

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan Carey, J.), rendered January 26, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4 Vi to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in closing the courtroom for the testimony of the undercover officer where the undercover officer feared for his safety and identified a very specific street location, the site of defendant’s arrest, at which he had functioned as an undercover for months and *116had…