Legal Opinion
People v. Peterson
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 23, 1993PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
During defendant’s jury trial for criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, the courtroom, which had been ordered closed for the testimony of an undercover police officer, inadvertently remained closed for defendant’s subsequent testimony. The trial court denied defendant’s application for a mistrial on the grounds that failure to reopen the courtroom resulted from an inadvertent lapse and not from an improper affirmative closure order. The Appellate Division upheld the conviction,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- People v. JonesNew York Court of Appeals · 1979
- People v. ColonNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
- People v. GloverNew York Court of Appeals · 1983
3Cited by27 opinions
- Kareem Peterson v. Melvin WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- United States v. Zuhair I. Al-Smadi A/k/a, Sudgi AsadCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1994
- People v. MartinNew York Court of Appeals · 2011
- People v. DeFreitasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2014
- People v. MolinaroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2009
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