People v. Rivera

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Mary McGowan Davis, J.), rendered August 19, 1993, 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 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it closed the courtroom during the trial testimony of the police officers, both of whom testified at a Hinton hearing that they continued to work in an undercover capacity in the exact area where defendant was arrested, that they had ongoing…