Kareem Peterson v. Melvin Williams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an otherwise justified courtroom closure that inadvertently continued for twenty minutes because of an administerial mistake was a “brief and inadvertent” closure that did not violate the Sixth Amendment
• holding that where closure was “1
• finding error trivial when bailiff inadvertently kept courtroom locked during 15-20 minutes of witness's testimony
• finding error trivial when bailiff inadvertently kept courtroom locked during 15-20 minutes of witness's testimony
• refusing to say how the triviality exception may play out beyond the facts of the case
• finding error trivial when bailiff inadvertently kept courtroom locked during 15-20 minutes of witness's testimony

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