MILLER, Justice:
In this original writ of prohibition, the relator, The Herald Mail Company [Herald Mail], seeks to prohibit the enforcement of a closure order entered by the Circuit Court of Hardy County on February 27, 1980. The effect of this order was to bar members of the public and press from portions of a scheduled pretrial hearing in a murder case in which Robert M. Leach was the defendant.
Mr. Leach's counsel had filed with the trial court, in addition...
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