Chief Judge Cooke (concurring). The decision to close any pretrial hearing at the request of a criminal defendant is one which should be made only in extraordinary circumstances. I write briefly to indicate my views as to what the proper standards should be when such a request is made. Preliminarily, at least for present purposes, it has been declared that the public is possessed of no inherent Sixth Amendme…
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