O'Connor v. Kelley

How courts have described this case

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• finding a partial closure when the doors to the courtroom were locked prior to closing arguments to prevent distraction of the parties and jurors
• “Allowing members of the public to freely come and go during the parties’ closing arguments would have distracted members of the jury and inhibited their ability to perform their important function.”
• The courtroom was open to the public at every stage of the proceeding except for the time during which the parties gave their closing arguments to the jury.”
• “To the extent that a substantial reason for partial closure is needed, however, appears to be tempered by the recognition of a trial judge's ability, in the interest of justice, to impose reasonable limitations on access to a trial” (internal citations and quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).