Government of the Virgin Islands v. Edmund Edinborough

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[sequestering witnesses to assist in ascertaining truth is at least as old as the Bible”
• noting that “failure to sequester witnesses is not, in itself, grounds for reversal,” and that “the witness is not necessarily disqualified”
• trial court has discretion to allow parent of young witness to remain in courtroom under exception for witnesses who are “essential” to presentation of party’s case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).