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· 3/12/2015

Brian Lamont Copeland v. United States

Citations

  • 111 A.3d 627
  • 2015 D.C. App. LEXIS 94
  • 2015 WL 1062978

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that a closure occurs when the court excludes persons from the courtroom during jury selection or by moving portions of jury selection outside of the courtroom “to a location not observable by the public, such as a jury room”
  • “Appellant cites no authority, and we can find none, holding that the practice of conducting a limited amount of individual [jury selection] at the bench with a ‘husher’ on violates a defendant’s right to a public trial.”

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Judges: Washington, Fisher, Ferren

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