Commonwealth v. Smith

This appeal is again before us after proceedings conducted in the lower court pursuant to an order of this Court entered on March 14, 1980. In Commonwealth v. Smith, 280 Pa.Super. 222, 421 A.2d 693 (1980), we remanded the case “for a hearing to enable the parties and the trial court to supplement the record” regarding appellant’s claims that the trial court’s exclusion of spectators from the courtroom and stationing of guards near appellant during trial had deprived him of a fair trial. 280 Pa. Super, at 226, 421 A.2d at 694. We were unable to evaluate the merits of these claims because the…