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 Amend VI; Civil Rights Law § 12; Judiciary Law § 4) because the Supreme Court excluded his family and his attorney's supervisor from the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover officer. Although the Supreme Court may have been justified in excluding the general public from the courtroom...
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