Juvenile Cases Transferred to Ordinary Criminal Court Can’t Be Categorically Sealed
Juvenile cases have historically been litigated confidentially. Ordinary criminal cases have historically been litigated openly, and the First Amendment has been read as protecting that openness. What should happen when serious juvenile cases are transferred to ordinary criminal court? In today’s Hartford Courant Co. v. Carroll, the Second Circuit (in an opinion by Judge Denny Chin, joined by Judges Joseph Bianco and Steven Menashi) said that those cases can’t be categorically sealed (though courts could consider case by case whether particular such cases should indeed be tried confidentially):
As the district court properly held, the right of access to court proce
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