Key legal question
Whether exclusion of the public from the appellate hearing violated the right to a public hearing.
Extracted holding
No violation; the defendant had not timely and actively sought a public hearing after the first-instance hearing had already been closed to the public, so the appellate court could assume waiver and need not balance interests anew.
Extracted reasoning
The request came only at the hearing despite prior knowledge of exclusion; his conduct was contrary to good faith, and the appellate court was not required to re-examine publicity on its own.