People v. Lauriano

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered December 14, 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.

Under the applicable standards (People v Martinez, 82 NY2d 436), the courtroom was properly closed during the undercover detective’s testimony. The Hinton hearing testimony “established the necessary spatial and temporal relationship among the courthouse, the location of defendant’s arrest, and the…