Cariola v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that situation where spectator was excluded from courtroom but permitted to view proceedings remotely from observation room was too trivial to implicate Sixth Amendment
• observing “[t]he Supreme Court has never addressed” a case involving the “‘partial closure’ of … any phase of a trial[]”
• “We evaluate the reasonableness of the state court’s ultimate conclusion, not necessarily the reasoning used to justify the decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).