Davidson v. State

The appellant was convicted of intentional murder, in violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life in prison. He raises two issues on appeal.

I

The appellant first contends that his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated when the door to the courtroom was locked for approximately two hours.

The record reveals that sometime after the trial, the appellant learned that the courtroom door might have been locked during a portion of the trial. At a post-trial hearing on the appellant's motion for judgment of acquittal, Ismael Amad, a reporter for the Montgomery…