Riley v. Young
Annotate this CaseAppellant was convicted of possession of child pornography. The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. Appellant later filed a pro se application for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that his jury trial was closed to the public in violation of his Sixth Amendment rights and that defense counsel’s failure to object to the closure constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. The habeas court dismissed Appellant’s application without holding an evidentiary hearing. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Appellant’s allegation of a Sixth Amendment public-trial violation failed to meet the “minimum threshold of plausibility.”
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