Commonwealth v. Robinson

**146The issue before us is whether a defendant who failed to raise a timely objection to an improper court room closure at trial nevertheless preserved the claim by raising the issue for the first time in his motion for a new trial, thirteen years after his convictions. Otherwise stated, by failing to raise the claim at trial, did the defendant "procedurally waive"1 his entitlement to the standard of review designated for preserved and meritorious **147claims of structural *359error, regardless of whether counsel and the defendant were subjectively unaware that the court room had been closed at…