Is the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial' violated when a trial court conducts an entire trial phase at the bench with a white-noise machine to prevent audience members from hearing the proceedings, without making specific findings on the need for privacy?

Is the Sixth Amendment right to a “public trial” violated where the trial court—for the stated purpose of keeping th e proceedings private rather than public, but without making any case-specific findings on an overriding need for privacy—conducts an entire phase of the trial at the judge’s bench while using a white-noise machine to prevent anyone in the audience from hearing the trial? ii STATEMENT OF