PEOPLE v. ECHEVARRIA


161 A.D.2d 449 (1990)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Efren Echevarria, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 17, 1990


This appeal arose after defendant was convicted of selling more than six ounces of heroin to a confidential informant for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

It was not an improvident exercise of discretion for the Supreme Court, after conducting a hearing, to have closed the courtroom to the public during the trial testimony of the confidential informant (People v Glover, 57 N.Y.2d 61; cf., People v Jones,

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