United States Second Circuit

State court's decision to close the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover officer, in a in "buy and bust" case where the officer continued to work undercover in the neighborhood where the defendant's arrest took place, was not contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39, 45 (1984), the leading Supreme Court case on courtroom closure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/15/2002
• Published 03/15/2002

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, MINER, and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael G. Paul, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Castellano, Johnette Traill, Alyson J. Gill, Assistant District Attorneys, Queens County, Kew Gardens, NY, (Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Queens County, Kew Gardens, NY), for Respondent-Appellee.