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PEOPLE v. JONES

96 N.Y.2d 213 (2001)

750 N.E.2d 524

726 N.Y.S.2d 608

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. MICHAEL JONES, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 8, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Taglieri, New York City, and M. Sue Wycoff for appellant.

Charles J. Hynes, District Attorney of Kings County, Brooklyn (Sholom J. Twersky and Leonard Joblove of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, LEVINE, CIPARICK, ROSENBLATT and GRAFFEO concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WESLEY, J.

"Buy-and-bust" cases often involve the testimony of an undercover officer. When the People can establish an overriding interest that open-court testimony by an undercover officer would jeopardize the officer's safety, the Trial Judge may close the courtroom during the testimony of that witness. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the posting of a court officer outside the...

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