Title: People v Torres

State: new-york

Issuer: New York Appellate Court

Document:

People v Torres

2012 NY Slip Op 07860

Decided on November 20, 2012

Court of Appeals

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on November 20, 2012

No. 235 SSM 39
[*1]The People & c., Appellant,
vVincent Torres, Respondent. (Appeal No. 1) -
The People & c., Appellant,
vVincent Torres, Respondent. (Appeal No. 2)

Submitted by Victoria M. White, for appellant.
Submitted by J. Scott Porter, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM:
The orders of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant adequately preserved the argument that the exclusion of his wife from [*2]the courtroom violated his right to a public trial (see People v Alvarez, _NY3d_, 2012 NY Slip Op 07227, at *4 [2012]; see also People v Caban, 14 NY3d 369, 373 [2010]). The closure of the courtroom during jury selection was not trivial (see People v Martin, 16 NY3d 607, 613 [2011]).
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On review of submissions pursuant to section 500.11 of the Rules, orders affirmed, in a memorandum. Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Ciparick, Graffeo, Read, Smith and Pigott concur.
Decided November 20, 2012