People v. Dones

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Carruthers, J.), rendered November 17, 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 7 to 14 years, unanimously modified as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, to the extent of reducing the sentence to a term of 5 to 10 years, and otherwise affirmed.

Closure of the courtroom during the undercover officer’s testimony, except to members of defendant’s family, the press, and the Bar, was properly based on…