The North Dakota Supreme Court docket reversed a lady’s conviction for forgery after concluding the district court docket had erred in closing the courtroom to supply jurors with the chance to debate “embarrassing or intrusive” issues “in personal.”
In a June 21 opinion, authored by Justice Jerod E. Tufte, the court docket decided the decrease court docket had closed the courtroom in holding personal particular person questioning of three potential jurors, which violated Susan Kaye Coons’ proper to a public trial.
