Zimmer v. Connett

How courts have described this case

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• finding that protection of the witness from unnecessary insult to her dignity was sufficient to justify a partial closure and allow only the press and family members of the defendant, the witness, and the decedent to remain during the witness’s testimony
• finding only a “partial closure” where “members of the press and the defendant’s relatives and clergymen were present at the trial”
• applying modified Waller test when trial judge excluded general public (but did not exclude press or families of defendant, victim, and witness) during testimony of one witness
• where proceeding not totally closed, “only a ‘substantial’ rather than ‘compelling’ reason for the closure was necessary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).