People v. Gray

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Corriero, J.), rendered January 6, 1986, convicting him of robbery in the second degree, grand larceny in the third degree, and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s sole contention, raised for the first time on *736appeal, is that locking the courtroom while the court instructed the jury constituted a closure in violation of his right (see, US Const 6th, 14th Amends; Judiciary Law §4) to an open and…