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PEOPLE v. KIN KAN

78 N.Y.2d 54 (1991)

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v. Kin Kan, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney (James M. McGuire, Mark Dwyer and Hilary Hassler of counsel), for appellant.

Stanley Neustadter for respondent.

Stanley Mark, Margaret Fung and Denny Chin for Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

BELLACOSA, J.

This appeal by the People involves gang-related, large-scale drug trafficking in the Chinatown section of New York City. The case pits defendant Kin Kan's constitutional right to a public trial against the trial court's closure of the courtroom to all spectators, including her family, over her objection, during the testimony of the key cooperating witness-accomplice to her crime. The closure as it...

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