· 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
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- 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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