Waller v. Georgia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the appropriate remedy for the violation of the public trial right during a pretrial suppression hearing is a new suppression hearing and not necessarily a new trial
• holding that, under the Sixth Amendment, a courtroom closure must meet the four-prong test when the accused has objected to the courtroom closure
• recognizing that the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is at least as broad as the public’s First Amendment right recognized in Press-Enterprise
• holding that, under the Sixth Amendment, a courtroom closure must meet the four-prong test when the accused has objected to the courtroom closure
• holding that a defendant’s public-trial right extends to a pretrial hearing on a motion to suppress
• holding that the defendant need not prove specific prejudice when public-trial claim is raised on direct appeal

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