United States v. Christi

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the defendant abandoned the right to a public trial by failing to object
• holding the defendant waived his public trial argument because defense counsel knew about the closure and failed to object to the closure
• finding that where defense counsel failed to speak while judge discussed closure “her silence passed beyond inadvertence or passivity to the point of waiver”
• holding that a Sixth Amendment public trial claim can be waived
• defendant waived any claim of error in court limiting public access to courtroom during most of jury instructions by counsel’s failure to object
• “The structural character means only that if Christi could now raise the issue he would not need to show any particular prejudice if otherwise entitled to relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).