Is There a Hearing Today?

If it is the case that he had a hearing today, then one of two things is true. The decision to seal a courtroom or to ask to seal the courtroom as a prosecutor doesn't even lie with the individual prosecutor. It lies with like their bosses bosses boss and so prosecutors take it very seriously when they asked for a hearing to be closed. Now, some reasons you may have for wanting this, this hearing sealed. It probably was not a substantive hearing. It's probably an initial appearance that we can talk more about where really nothing substantive happens. But you can imagine if his arrest or what is said during that hearing can throw off or the investigation or the arrest on another code defendant.