waller-v-georgia
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-999 | Brandon Z. Miller v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-23 | Pending | court-martial military-rule-of-evidence-412 public-trial-clause sexual-assault sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia | Whether the Public Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires case-specific determinations of necessity and narrow tailoring before an M.R.E. 412 he… | |
| 25A656 | Brandon Z. Miller v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-04 | Application | confrontation-clause military-evidence-rule presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7382 | Issac Jermale Fisher v. Missouri | Missouri | 2025-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-significance courtroom-closure public-access structural-error trial-court-standards waller-v-georgia | When do intentional actions designed to restrict the public's entry to the courtroom constitute a closure of constitutional significance that, unless … |
| 24-5225 | Nidal M. Hasan v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | A violation of the public trial guarantee is structural error, defying harmless error review. Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286, 299 (2017). In Wa… |
| 22-6190 | Kevin Patrick Mallory v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights court-findings judicial-discretion overriding-interest partial-closure public-trial reasonable-alternatives sixth-amendment waller-standard waller-v-georgia | Whether, before a court may order a "partial closure" restricting the public's ability to see or hear evidence or questioning that is accessible by th… |
| 22-5714 | Tracy Alan Zornes v. William Bolin, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of-1 courtroom-closure criminal-procedure partial-courtroom-closure presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire waller-test waller-v-georgia | The question presented by this petition is whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterror… |
| 21-764 | Patrick Huff v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access sixth-amendment trial-procedure waller-analysis waller-v-georgia | Whether, as the court below and two other states hold, trial courts may close a courtroom pursuant to a closure statute without undertaking the Waller… |
| 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… |
| 20-6869 | Tavarius D. Radford v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courtroom-closure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance partial-closure public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | (1) Whether the "overriding interest" test established by this Court in Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39 (1984), to determine if a defendant's Sixth Ame… |
| 20-6778 | Richard Anderson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof courtroom-closure criminal-procedure family-member-exclusion public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception waller-v-georgia | On October 4, 2013, and again on December 4, 2013, Kevin Felton, a friend of Mr. Anderson, tried to attend Mr. Anderson's trial. On both occasions, wi… |
| 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… |
| 19-5610 | Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution | First Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curi… |