Legal Opinion
Craig Martin v. Lynn Bissonette
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 11, 1997No. 96-1856PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REVISED OPINION
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant Craig Martin, a state prisoner, sought habeas relief based on a claim that the state court’s exclusion of his mother from the courtroom during part of the testimony of a key prosecution witness deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied the writ. Martin appeals.
As a preliminary matter, we must explore, for the first time in this circuit, the interrelationship between habeas petitions and the newly enacted Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996…
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