United States v. Sorrentino

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

Vincent Anthony Sorrentino was convicted in the District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, with one Eliza- - beth A. Kobli and others, of a conspiracy to violate the Mann Act. Upon an appeal by defendant Kobli from her conviction we held that the district court had denied her the public trial guaranteed to her by the Sixth Amendment by an order excluding from the courtroom over the objection of her counsel all persons except the defendants, their counsel, witnesses and members of the press. United States v. Kobli, 3 Cir., 1949, 172 F.2d 919. Upon the present…