Members of the public having trouble hearing and seeing testimony via a remote stream didn’t qualify as a court closure that affected the trial’s fairness, U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the Eastern District of New York decided.

Even if that had been the case, Dearie wrote in an order released Tuesday, the Eastern District of New York court’s protocol aimed at minimizing the spread of COVID-19 wouldn’t have been a Sixth Amendment violation as alleged by the counsel and friends of Lamonte Johnson, who in May was tried and convicted of three charges for involvement in coordinating home invasion robberies.