People v. Archer

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered February 6, 1992, 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 8 to 16 years, unanimously modified, on the law, the facts, and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to reduce the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.

We perceive no abuse of discretion in closing the courtroom to the public based on the undercover officer’s expression of fear that his own safety…