People v. Morales

Judgment, *176Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Rettinger, J.), rendered September 28, 1993, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s claim the court erred in closing the courtroom during the testimony of the undercover officer is unpreserved for appellate review as a matter of law, defendant having failed to object when the court, after…