PEOPLE v. MCCONNELL


29 A.D.3d 392 (2006)

813 N.Y.S.2d 905

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. STEPHAN McCONNELL, Appellant.

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

May 16, 2006.


The People made a sufficiently particularized showing of an overriding interest justifying the court's use of a screening procedure to exclude the general public from the courtroom during an undercover officer's testimony, in order to protect his safety and effectiveness. The officer had numerous other cases pending in the courthouse, continued to work undercover in the vicinity of defendant's arrest, and took specific precautions upon entering the courthouse because he feared...

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