public-trial-right

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error The Constitution requires "public" criminal trials. U.S. Const. amend. VI. The First Amendment and Sixth Amendment guarantee the community and the def…
22-6160 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony This case involves an unprecedented public-trial violation claim like no other brought before this Court. The record here reflects, that during a jury…
20-7889 Anthony Sistrunk v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-29 Denied IFP plain-error plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte-closure voir-dire waller-v-georgia In the context of direct appeal, when the district court sua sponte closes the courtroom for the entirety of voir dire and fails to make findings spec…
19-7426 Joseph Njonge v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent Ninth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP courtroom-closure prejudice public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment trial-procedure triviality-exception voir-dire waller-v-georgia Whether the "triviality exception" to the Sixth Amendment public-trial right comports with Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39 (1984), which provides the s…