3 Md. App. 136 - Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true that the Sixth Amendment to the Federal Constitution guarantees to an accused ‘the right to a speedy and public trial.’ But we do not read this guarantee as carrying with it a right in the accused to demand a private trial. Under our form of government, secrecy in any phase of its administration is abhorrent; secrecy in the administration of justice is intolerable. Our citizens have the same interest in insuring that fair play is accorded an accused at trial as they do in seeing that the rights of society are preserved and respected in the trial of an alleged offender against its laws. See E. W. Scripps Co. v. Fulton, 100 Ohio App. 157 , 125 N.E.2d 896 . This is not to say that a trial judge does not have some latitude in the conduct of the trial proceedings to make selective exclusions of members of the public where no prejudice to the accused results. The Court of Appeals of Maryland recognized this in Dutton v. State, 123 Md. 373 (at p. 387) : ‘In determining whether any part of the public should be excluded from the trial of a criminal case, some discretion must be allowed the trial court.’ We find no merit in the Appellant’s contention that it was error to deny him a private trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 15 Md. App. 520 - Avery v. State