United States v. James O. Bakker

How courts have described this case

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• noting that \[w]e have required such specific reasons and findings on the record to facilitate the de novo review of such closure orders\
• “Increasingly the courts are expressing confidence that voir dire can serve in almost all cases as a reliable protection against juror bias however induced.”
• a thorough voir dire of jurors is “the preferred safeguard against” the threat of an unfair trial
• “Though in particular cases the threat may be so overwhelming that only more drastic measures are adequate, recent experience in a number of nationally publicized trials of widely publicized individuals serves to validate the efficacy of the voir dire for this purpose.”
• closure order reversed because of lack of judicial findings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).