Stackhouse v. People

¶ 1 In this case, we granted certiorari to consider whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that the defendant waived his public trial claim by failing to object to the closure of the courtroom during jury selection. This question turns largely on whether our precedent in Anderson v. People, 176 Colo. 224, 490 P.2d 47, 48 (1971)—holding that a defendant affirmatively waives his public trial right by not objecting to a known closure of the courtroom—remains controlling precedent, or whether it has been abrogated by the more recent United States Supreme Court decisions in Waller v.…