Peter Vidal v. Joseph Williams, Superintendent of Fulton Correctional Facility

How courts have described this case

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• granting habeas relief where court erroneously excluded the defendant’s parents from courtroom during testimony of one police officer
• noting that “the petitioner need not show prejudice”
• analyzing family members’ inclination to harm officer and likelihood of encounter
• “Defense counsel requested that Vidal’s parents, who were present at trial, be allowed to remain in the courtroom.”
• “the Supreme Court has specifically noted a special concern for assuring the attendance of family members of the accused”
• “a courtroom can [not] be closed to a defendant’s relatives [simply because] the relatives live (or, presumably, work

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).