People v. Huggins

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Harkavy, J.), rendered April 27, 1992, 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 reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.

Over the defendant’s objection, the court granted the People’s application to close the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover police officer. We find that the court erred since the officer’s testimony at the hearing on…