People v. Medina

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Mary McGowan Davis, J.), rendered July 6, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 1 to 3 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in employing a screening procedure to control access to the courtroom during the undercover officer’s testimony in light of the officer’s Hinton hearing testimony that he was to continue working in the area of defendant’s arrest, that he had cases pending in the same courthouse, that he had…