PEOPLE v. ALVAREZ


51 A.D.3d 167 (2008)

854 N.Y.S.2d 70

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. ENRIQUE ALVAREZ, Appellant.

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

March 27, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Greenberg, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City (Rosemary Herbert of counsel), and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, New York City (Justin Engel of counsel), for appellant.

Robert M. Morgenthau, District Attorney, New York City (Mary C. Farrington of counsel), for respondent.

TOM, J.P., FRIEDMAN and SWEENY, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GONZALEZ, J.

The primary issue on this appeal from defendant's conviction of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree is whether the trial court's exclusion of defendant's girlfriend from the courtroom during the trial testimony of two undercover police officers violated his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. Two corollary issues are whether the court abused its discretion...

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