PEOPLE v. RIVERA


281 A.D.2d 496 (2001)

722 N.Y.S.2d 243

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JESSE RIVERA, Appellant.

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

Decided March 12, 2001.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The defendant contends that he was denied his right to a public trial (see, US Const 6th Amend; Civil Rights Law § 12; Judiciary Law § 4; People v Jones, 47 N.Y.2d 409, cert denied 444 U.S. 946), because the Supreme Court excluded his mother, girlfriend, and child from the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover...

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