Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1996

People v. Torres

People v. Torres
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 11, 1996
228 A.D.2d 241; 644 N.Y.2d 23; 644 N.Y.S.2d 23; 1996 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6451
People v. Torres

Opinion of the Court

*242The trial court properly closed the courtroom during the testimony of the undercover officer based upon the particularized danger to the officer’s safety resulting from the unusually high number of Bronx County cases pending in the court involving that officer as undercover purchaser. This circumstance made it unusually likely that defendants from the officer’s other cases would be present in or around the courtroom (see, People v Martinez, 82 NY2d 436, 443; People v Brown, 214 AD2d 438, lv denied 86 NY2d 791). Concur—Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Wallach, Ross and Tom, JJ.

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