Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue on direct review

QUESTION PRESENTED A violation of the public trial guarantee is structural error, defying harmless error review. Weaver v. Massachusetts, 582 U.S. 286, 299 (2017). In Waller v. Georgia, this Court said the remedy for a breach of the public trial guarantee “should be appropriate to the violation.” 467 US. 39, 50 (1984). This Court later explained in Weaver v. Massachusetts that the appropriate remedy is, generally, “automatic reversal.” Weaver, 582 U.S. at 299. The question presented is whether, in this capital case, a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue on direct review? i