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The area for the general public, usually directly behind the attorneys tables, is the "gallery".

Added: Generally, witness also sit in the gallery unless a party requests that they be excluded from the courtroom or unless the court, on its own, orders the exclusion. See for example Federal Rule of Evidence 615 at the link below. States have their own rules which may be different.

Witnesses might wait in in a separate room but if excluded from the courtroom, they usually only have to wait outside the courtroom until called to testify in court. This is so that the witness's testimony isn't affected by the testimony of others, or influenced by the questions that the attorneys may ask the other witnesses.

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Where do the children sit for the trial to kill a mockingbird?

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