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Reynolds v. Artuz

Courtroom closure during undercover detective's testimony did not violate right to public trial.

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REYNOLDS v. ARTUZ — Barrington Reynolds, a state prisoner, petitions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 for a writ of habeas corpus on seven grounds: (1) he was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial by the trial court’s improper closure of the courtroom during the testimony of undercover Police Detective Hall; (2) he was denied the right to a fair trial under the U.S. Constitution when the trial court admitted into evidence an inaudible tape recording of a conversation between Detective Hall and a narcotics suspect, and provided the jury with a written transcript of the tapes, prepared solely by the officer who was the principal prosecution witness; (3) he was denied his constitutional rights to due process and equal protection of the law when Detective Hall testified that petitioner was armed with a gun during the alleged transaction, a crime for which he had not been charged; (4) the failure of the prosecution to independently establish a conspiracy rendered conversations between Detective Hall and petitioner’s alleged accomplice hearsay, and the admission of these conversations denied petitioner the right to a fair trial and due process of law; (5) he was denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of trial counsel guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments primarily because defense counsel failed to object to “countless instances of hearsay” testimony; (6) he was deprived of due process of law because the verdict was not supported by legally sufficient evidence that established beyond a reasonable doubt every fact necessary to constitute the crime; and (7) the sentence imposed was clearly excessive.

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