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182915P.pdf   05/05/2020  Byron Smith  v.  Jeff Titus
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2915
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. The Minnesota Supreme Court's decision that it was 
   constitutional for the trial court to briefly close the public proceedings 
   in defendant's criminal trial before the jury was sworn in order to 
   conduct an administrative proceeding where it explained the parameters of 
   an earlier public order on evidentiary issues was not contrary to Supreme 
   Court precedents nor an unreasonable application of those precedents.