officer’s safety would be prejudiced by an open courtroom in this case had sufficient weight in the balance. But cf. Ayala v. Speckard, 89 F.3d 91, 95-96 (2d Cir.1996) (no justification under Waller for a “rule that, despite- the Sixth Amendment, no undercover officer who intends to return to undercover work need testify in open court”), vacated on rehearing en banc, Ayala v. Speckard, 131 F.3d 62 (2d Cir.1997). (ii) Narrow tailoring of the closure. The courtroom was closed only for the length of the officer’s brief testimony. The transcript of the proceeding, never sealed, was available to the public. Under these circumstances, the closure was no broader than necessary to protect the State’s interest in ensuring the safety of the undercover officer. See Ayala, 131 F.3d at 72 (<HOLDING>). Brown contends that the closure was overly
holding the excluded testimony was relevant to whether a signature was that of a deceased party and since a statement regarding the issue was the only testimony that could be given by the witness no offer to prove was necessary because the substance of the evidence was apparent from the context of the question asked holding that in order to state a claim for ineffective assistance of counsel based on the failure to call a witness to testify the claimant must allege 1 the identity of the potential witness 2 that the witness was available to testify at trial 3 the substance of the witnesss testimony and 4 an explanation of how the omission of the testimony prejudiced the case holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in limiting testimony to only one witness where additional witnesses would have provided the same testimony holding that excluding expert testimony was harmless and did not affect the jury verdict because the subject matter of the testimony was only one factor and by no means a determinative one holding that closure was limited not only because it lasted only for the testimony of one witness  but also because there was no limitation at all on the right of the public or the press to examine the transcript of the officers testimony