64 A.D.2d 668 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1978
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, rendered August 2, 1977 (the date in the appellant’s brief is September 15, 1977), convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. Judgment affirmed. On this appeal, defendant argues that the trial court committed reversible error when it sealed the courtroom during the testimony of an undercover police officer. We disagree. In the case at bar, the codefendant’s counsel raised this very issue before the trial court. Defendant’s counsel was offered the opportunity to either join in the objection or to protest on his own, but chose not to do so. Defendant’s counsel was specifically asked by the trial court whether he wished to say anything in this respect and he responded negatively. It has long been held that the failure to object to the sealing of the courtroom constitutes a waiver of that objection and a bar to raising the issue on appeal (People v Miller, 257 NY