As the People commendably concede, the trial court erred when, over specific objection, it excluded all spectators, including defendant's girlfriend, from the courtroom during the testimony of one of the arresting police officers who, sometime subsequent to the incident herein, had been assigned to undercover work in Queens. Only three months earlier, defendant's girlfriend had observed the same witness testify in open court during a pre-trial suppression hearing. Upon our...
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