The court properly ordered closure of the courtroom, with the exception of attorneys and members of defendant's family, during the undercover officer's testimony. The People established that such closure was necessary to protect an overriding interest, in that the officer had received threats arising out of her undercover operations, still worked in the particular area within which the instant sale had occurred, had open cases from that area, had seen persons in the vicinity...
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