Opinion
2001-05070
Submitted September 27, 2002.
October 21, 2002.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), rendered May 30, 2001, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (two counts), after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence.
Lynn W. L. Fahey, New York, N.Y. (David P. Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.
Richard A. Brown, District Attorney, Kew Gardens, N.Y. (John M. Castellano, Jeanette Lifschitz, and Erin J. Law of counsel), for respondent.
Before: FRED T. SANTUCCI, J.P., CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, LEO F. McGINITY, SANDRA L. TOWNES, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant has not preserved for appellate review his contention regarding the partial closure of the courtroom (see CPL 470.05; People v. Rodriguez, 262 A.D.2d 428). In any event, under the circumstances of this case, the defendant was not denied his right to a public trial (see People v. Jones, 96 N.Y.2d 213; People v. Hargett, 293 A.D.2d 757).
SANTUCCI, J.P., O'BRIEN, McGINITY and TOWNES, JJ., concur.