People v. Cotto

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Rosalyn Richter, J.), rendered February 14, 2001, 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 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

By expressly agreeing to a compromise plan whereby the courtroom would be closed, during two undercover officers’ testimony, to the general public and to several of the numerous persons defendant had requested to have in attendance, defendant waived his claim that his right to a public trial was…