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Petition of the day

The petition of the day is:

15-550

Issue: Whether a criminal defendant’s inadvertent failure to object to courtroom closure is an “intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right” that affirmatively waives his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial, or is instead a forfeiture, which does not wholly foreclose appellate review.

Recommended Citation: John Ehrett, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 31, 2015, 11:00 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/12/petition-of-the-day-894/