Legal Opinion
People v. Alvarado
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 29, 1996PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Brill, J.), rendered April 10, 1992, 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 reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
Upon our review of the record, we find that the trial court’s closure of the courtroom to the general public during the testimony of Undercover Police Officer 2544 was improper. At the Hinton hearing (see, People v Hinton, 31 NY2d 71, cert denied 410 US 911) the undercover officer, in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. HintonNew York Court of Appeals · 1972
- People v. MartinezNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- People v. MonroigAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
- People v. DavisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
3Cited by6 opinions
- Andre Brown v. Robert Kuhlmann, Superintendent of Sullivan Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1998
- People v. MonroigAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
- People v. BoboAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
- People v. JohnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
- People v. HopsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
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