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Federal judge closes hearings to public in trial of Blackwater security guards charged with manslaughter in Iraq

A U.S. district judge closed the Blackwater manslaughter pretrial hearings to the public, he said, to enable a fair trial by shielding witnesses and potential jurors from a flurry of media reports. -DB

The Washington Post
October 15, 2009
By Del Quentin Wilber
A federal judge blocked the public Wednesday from attending a critical set of pretrial hearings in [...]