People v. Gatling

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Carruthers, J.), rendered November 17, 1994, convicting defendant, after a nonjury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly closed the courtroom during the testimony of two undercover officers, based on the officers’ testimony at a Hinton hearing that they were currently and expected in the future to be engaged in undercover operations in the specific area of defendant’s…