Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.
Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court erred when it excluded two nondisruptive children from the courtroom, one of whom was apparently the defendant's, only because it was the court's policy to exclude children from the courtroom, thereby denying the defendant his right to a public trial (see, People v Miller,
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