Gerald English v. Christopher Artuz, Superintendent Green Haven Correctional Facility

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• holding that the absence of “meaningful findings” violated the appellant’s right to a public trial
• holding that the right to a public trial was violated when the court excluded family members, and rejecting the government’s contention that removal of spectators was required because the state could not tell who was a family member of the defendant
• rejecting prosecutor’s “generalized comments” as insufficient to show overriding interest in closing courtroom to defendant’s family during witness’s testimony
• holding the right to a public trial was violated when the court excluded family members, and rejecting the government’s contention that removal of spectators was required because the state could not tell who was a family member of the defendant
• affirming grant of habeas relief where “trial judge failed to use the colloquy to arrive at meaningful findings adequate to justify the exclusion of [the accused’s] family”
• \[T]he state's obligation to show an overriding interest cannot be met by a proffer of mere speculation.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).