People v. Boucher

Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ryan, J.), rendered March 9, 1979, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

At trial, defendant objected to the closing of the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover officer. At the hearing which preceded closure, the officer testified that he was still actively engaged as an undercover officer and was participating in "buy operations” in…