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incorporated herein. See Standing Orders 20-5 (Mar. 20, 2020) and 20-21 (June 17, 2020).2 The hearing held today will be an initial appearance and removal hearing for defendant Ghislaine Maxwell. Today’s hearing has been noticed as a video hearing. In the event defendant consents to proceed, the court makes the findings below. Before convening this video/telephone hearing, the court carefully considered the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to public court proceedings and the public’s and press’s First Amendment rights to in-person access to such proceedings. See Bucci v. United States, 662 F.3d 18, 22 (lst Cir. 2011) (citing Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39, 48 (1984)); Press-Enter. Co. v. Superior Court of California, Riverside Cty., 464 U.S. 501, 509- 10 (1984). This Order details my findings. II. Partial Rather Than Total Closure The court first finds that this video hearing constitutes a partial, rather than total, closure of these proceedings. The court so finds because the goals of public access will still be achieved: this proceeding is not being held in secret and the public, including members of the press, maintains the 2 All the court’s Standing Orders regarding the COVID-19 outbreak can be found here: http://www.nhd.uscourts.gov/court- response-coronavirus-disease-covid-19. 2 DOJ-OGR-00019194