People v. Kan

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1991-06-11

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OPINION OF THE COURT Bellacosa, J. This appeal by the People involves gang-related, large-scale drug trafficking in the Chinatown section of New York City. The case pits defendant Kin Kan’s constitutional right to a public trial against the trial court’s closure of the courtroom to all spectators, including her family, over her objection, during the testimony of the key cooperating witness-accomplice to her…

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