Gummey v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the proper remedy for counsel’s failure to raise on appeal the violation of appellant’s public trial right was remand for a new trial
• noting that appellate counsel would have succeeded had he or she raised the closed courtroom issue on direct appeal
• holding public trial error is “presumptively prejudicial,” so that appellate counsel’s failure to raise issue on appeal “was both deficient and prejudicial”
• emphasizing that the trial court erred because it failed to engage in the Bone-Club analysis before permitting a. full closure of the proceedings
• holding separate victims creates presumption that conduct is \separate and distinct\
• holding separate victims creates presumption that conduct is \separate and distinct\

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