People v. Wooten

—Appeal by the de*675fendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Orgera, J.), rendered June 1, 1994, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied his right to a public trial (see, US Const 6th Amend; Civil Rights Law § 12; Judiciary Law § 4; People v Jones, 47 NY2d 409, cert denied 444 US 946). At a hearing pursuant to People v Hinton (31 NY2d 71, cert denied 410 US 911), an undercover police officer testified that he would…