Legal Opinion
People v. Ramos
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 1, 1997PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Kaye.
Typically, in "buy-and-bust” cases, an undercover officer purchases a small quantity of narcotics from the defendant and a second officer thereafter makes the arrest. Where the People show that open-court testimony by the undercover officer during defendant’s trial would jeopardize the undercover’s safety and effectiveness, is it proper for the Trial Judge to close the courtroom during the testimony of that witness?
While we have already answered that question in the affirmative in People v Martinez (82 NY2d 436), these appeals present two related…
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