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VIDAL v. WILLIAMS

No. 1750, Docket 93-2548.

31 F.3d 67 (1994)

Peter VIDAL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Joseph WILLIAMS, Superintendent of Fulton Correctional Facility, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane E. Courselle, Staff Atty., New York City (Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City, Ira Mickenberg, for petitioner, Joseph M. Nursey, Supervising Atty., counsel), for petitioner-appellant.

Alan S. Rafterman, Asst. Dist. Atty., Bronx, NY (Robert T. Johnson, Dist. Atty., Bronx County, Allen H. Saperstein, Asst. Dist. Atty., of counsel), for respondent-appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, LUMBARD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Peter Vidal appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, Preska, J., dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court held that Vidal's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was not violated when his criminal trial in the New York Supreme Court, Bronx County, was closed to the public — including Vidal's parents — during...

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