Campbell v. State

Clyde Campbell v. State of Maryland, No. 1103, September Term, 2016. Opinion by Woodward, J. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE – SIXTH AMENDMENT – RIGHT TO A PUBLIC TRIAL – DE MINIMUS CLOSURE A courtroom closure in which defendant’s family was excluded from the courtroom for a total time of three to three and a half hours, encompassing a portion of voir dire and the entire selection and swearing-in of the jury, was not a de minimus closure, and therefore implicated defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE – SIXTH AMENDMENT – RIGHT TO A PUBLIC TRIAL – DE MINIMUS CLOSURE –…