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MARTIN v. BISSONETTE

No. 96-1856.

118 F.3d 871 (1997)

Craig MARTIN, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Lynn BISSONETTE, et al., Respondents, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol A. Donovan, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Boston, MA, for appellant.

James S. Liebman, Elaine R. Jones, George H. Kendall, and L. Song Richardson on combined brief for James S. Liebman and NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., amici curiae.

Ellyn H. Lazar, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, with whom Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH and CYR, Senior Circuit Judges.

REVISED OPINION

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Craig Martin, a state prisoner, sought habeas relief based on a claim that the state court's exclusion of his mother from the courtroom during part of the testimony of a key prosecution witness deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied the writ. Martin appeals.

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