Johnnie Walton v. Kenneth R. Briley, Warden

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• holding that defendant’s right to a public trial was not waived by failing to object at trial
• holding that the federal habeas petitioner had not waived his public-trial complaint by failing to object because that right may be relinquished only upon showing of a knowing and voluntary waiver
• holding that the federal habeas petitioner had not waived his public-trial complaint by failing to object because that right may be relinquished only upon showing of a knowing and voluntary waiver
• conc1uding that failure to ob- ject at trial did not result in a waiver of defendant's claim that his right to a public trial was violated
• applying a heightened standard of waiver to the public trial right and concluding that a defendant must knowingly and voluntarily waive the right
• granting an Illinois defendant postconviction relief because the public was excluded from the prosecution’s presentation of its entire case-in-chief

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