On this appeal from his conviction for the crime of robbery in the second degree, defendant has raised a serious constitutional and statutory challenge to the practice, almost universally applied in criminal trials conducted in this State, of automatically closing and locking the courtroom doors during the Judge's charge to the jury.
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