Commonwealth v. Mott, R., Pet

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a \triviality standard differs from a harmless error assessment\
• noting that the pro- ceedings during the closure “were minor”
• “[T]here is a question as to whether the third prong of the plain error test is met automatically in cases of structural error.”
• “[W]e are not presented with a case in which friends or relatives of the defendant, or anyone else for that matter, were actually excluded.”
• “[T]here is a question as to whether the third prong of the plain error test is met automatically in cases of structural error.”
• “[T]rivial violations do not run awry of the Sixth Amendment . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).