People v. Echevarria

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLauglin, J.), rendered April 22, 1987, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

This appeal arose after defendant was convicted of selling more than six ounces of heroin to a confidential informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

It was not an improvident exercise of discretion for the Supreme Court, after conducting a hearing, to have closed the courtroom to the public during…