People v. Lewis

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Donnelly, J.), rendered June 20, 2014, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in partially closing the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover police officer to whom the defendant was charged with selling narcotics.…