People v. Thomas

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Beerman, J.), rendered April 17, 1989, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

On the codefendant’s appeal, this court held that the trial court did not err in closing the courtroom to the public during the testimony of an undercover police officer (see, People v Weaver, 162 AD2d 486). The defendant has failed to offer any persuasive reason for this court to depart from its prior determination of…