United States Second Circuit

A grant of a conditional writ of habeas corpus, challenging the closure of defendant's trial to relatives during the testimony of an undercover officer, is reversed and remanded for analysis of reasonableness of the closure under governing Supreme Court cases.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2002
• Published 06/27/2002

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge., Before:  POOLER and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, KAPLAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey I. Richman,The Legal Aid Society-Criminal Appeals Bureau, New York, N.Y. (Andrew C. Fine, on the brief,) for Petitioner-Appellee., Melanie L. Oxhorn, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Preeta D. Bansal, Solicitor General, Robin Forshaw, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for Respondents Appellants.