People v. Jones

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Wade, J.), rendered February 20, 1997, 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 was convicted for selling crack cocaine to an undercover officer in exchange for two five-dollar bills. The defendant argues that he was deprived of his right to a public trial when the trial court closed the courtroom to the general public during the undercover officer’s testimony. We disagree.

Prior to the…