People v. Rosario

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Tejada, J.), rendered May 26, 1992, convicting defendant, after 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 5V2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court appropriately exercised its discretion at defendant’s trial in absentia, in closing the courtroom during the testimony of the undercover officer, following a hearing at which the officer testified that he was then actively engaged in undercover narcotics operations, that he was then involved…