People v. Varela
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered September 10, 2002, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of eight years, unanimously affirmed.
Under the circumstances presented, defendant did not preserve his argument that the court violated his right to a public trial by excluding his family members from the courtroom during a portion of jury selection. Although there were colloquies concerning whether the family members were potential witnesses and whether they could be…
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