No. 18-8207

Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan

Lower Court: Michigan
Docketed: 2019-03-01
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION(S) PRESENTED During Petitioner's jury trial, in state court, the prosecutor requested that the trial court "close the courtroom! For that reason, the trial court then completely closed the courtroom to the public during the testimony of five prosecution witnesses. No evidence of any kind was ever presented to the trial court supporting the need for a courtroom closure. The trial court never gave a reason as to why it closed the courtroom. The prosecutor asked, and for that reason : alone, Petitioner's trial was nonpublic. The question's are: 1. Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated when the courtroom was closed to the public during his jury trial, 2. Whether the closure was a so serious that it . rendered Petitioner's trial fundamentally unfair, 3. Whether Petitioner's trial was the type of 'Secret-Trial' that this Court and the Sixth Amendment seeks to prevent, 4, Whether Petitioner is entitled to a NEW TRIAL. * ~ *

Docket Entries

2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2018-09-26
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 1, 2019)

Attorneys

Wayland Lynn Dilts
Wayland Lynn Dilts — Petitioner
Wayland Lynn Dilts — Petitioner