PEOPLE v. DAVIS

No. 161396.

983 N.W.2d 325 (2022)

509 Mich. 52

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Donald Wayne DAVIS, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Nessel , Attorney General, Fadwa A. Hammoud , Solicitor General, David S. Leyton , Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael A. Tesner , Alena M. Clark , and Rebecca Jurva-Brinn , Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for the people.

State Appellate Defender Office (by Jacqueline J. McCann and Steven Helton ) for defendant.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH.


OPINION

At issue in this case is whether defendant, Donald W. Davis, Jr., was deprived of his constitutional right to a public trial. After a benign interaction between a courtroom observer and a juror on the second day of trial, the trial court removed all but one observer from the courtroom, instructed the removed observers...

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