203013P.pdf   06/27/2022  Tracy Alan Zornes  v.  William Bolin
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-3013
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Prisoner case - Habeas. The state court's decision that the exclusion of 
   Zorne's girlfriend and the victim's brother during jury selection did not 
   violate Zorne's right to a public trial was not contrary to clearly 
   established federal law; nor did the state court decision on the issue 
   involve an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law; in 
   the absence of any Supreme Court decision on the question, the court 
   agrees with the district court that fair-minded jurists could take the 
   view that the substantial reasons justifying witness sequestration during 
   the evidentiary portion of a trial extend to jury voir dire; the state 
   court decision that excluding the victim's brother from voir dire was "too 
   trivial" to implicate the Sixth Amendment was not an unreasonable 
   application of clearly established federal law; in any event, under any 
   standard of review, Zorne waived his present claim that exclusion of the 
   brother from the courtroom during jury selection violated the right to 
   public trial.