Gilbert Nieto v. George Sullivan

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• holding that excluding some of the defendant’s relatives because the testifying witness was afraid for his safety was a “substantial reason” justifying a constitutional, partial courtroom closure
• holding that excluding some of the defendant’s relatives because the testifying witness was afraid for his safety was a “substantial reason” justifying a constitutional, partial courtroom closure
• holding that excluding some of defendant’s relatives because the testifying witness was afraid for his safety was a “substantial reason” justifying a constitutional, partial courtroom closure
• finding that excluding the defendant’s family during certain testimony amounted to a partial closure
• affirming denial of habeas relief where trial court learned witness “worried about testifying since two of the assailants were still at large”
• using “a less stringent test of a ‘substantial reason’ where partial closures are held necessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).