Petition of the day
By John Ehrett
on Jan 1, 2016
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.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Recommended Citation:
John Ehrett,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Jan. 1, 2016, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/01/petition-of-the-day-894/