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Tharp v. State

Citations

  • 763 A.2d 151
  • 362 Md. 77
  • 2000 Md. LEXIS 762

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  • holding that the petitioner's trial attorney had the right, as a member of the public, to challenge a courtroom closure on the public's behalf
  • holding that the petitioner’s trial attorney had the right, as a member of the public, to challenge a courtroom closure on the public’s behalf
  • tracing the right of criminal defendants to a public trial in Maryland to its common law roots, and noting that the right to “[t]he openness of criminal trials also finds penumbral support in Article 21 of the [Maryland] Declaration of Rights”
  • tracing the right of criminal defendants to a public trial in Maryland to its common law roots, and noting that the right to \[t]he openness of criminal trials also finds penumbral support in Article 21 of the [Maryland] Declaration of Rights\
  • witnesses sequestered pursuant to the rale “are no longer considered members of the general public for purposes of exclusion from the courtroom during criminal proceedings”
  • witnesses sequestered under the rule “are no longer considered members of the general public for purposes of exclusion from the courtroom during criminal proceedings, and a criminal defendant’s right to a public trial is in no way damaged by proper sequestration . . . .”

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Judges: Harrell, Rodowsky

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