Clyde Snyder v. Ira M. Coiner, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a brief, temporary closure of the courtroom to additional spectators during closing arguments was too trivial to amount to denial of the public trial right
• bailiff’s refusal to allow persons to enter or leave the courtroom for a time during closing arguments too trivial to amount to a constitutional violation
• habeas corpus petition claiming constitutional deprivation where bailiff refused to allow persons to enter or leave courtroom briefly during closing arguments
• where bailiff would not allow people to leave or enter the courtroom during arguments, no violation
• where bailiff would not allow people to leave or enter the courtroom during arguments, no violation
• courtroom locked for a short time without knowledge of trial judge during arguments of counsel before the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).