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Argued November 12, 1980.
Decided January 26, 1981.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joel Hirschhorn argued the cause and filed briefs for appellants.
Jim Smith, Attorney General of Florida, and Calvin L. Fox, Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause and filed a brief for appellee.*
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by J. Roger Wollenberg, Timothy B. Dyk, Floyd Abrams, Patricia Pickrel, and Ralph E. Goldberg for CBS Inc.; by Parker D. Thomson and Sanford L. Bohrer for the Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc., et al.; by Talbot D'Alemberte and Donald M. Middlebrooks for Florida News Interests on Development and Operation of Florida Rule; and by J. Laurent Scharff, Joel M. Hamme, Jack N. Goodman, Mortimer Becker, Corydon B. Dunham, Erwin G. Krasnow, Carl R. Ramey, Arthur B. Sackler, and Ernest T. Sanchez for the Radio Television News Directors Association et al.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the Attorney General of Alabama et al. by Bronson C. La Follette, Attorney General of Wisconsin, Kirbie Knutson, Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama, Wilson L. Condon, Attorney General of Alaska, Robert K. Corbin, Attorney General of Arizona, Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General of Iowa, Steven L. Beshear, Attorney General of Kentucky, William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of Louisiana, Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General of Maryland, Mike Greely, Attorney General of Montana, Richard H. Bryan, Attorney General of Nevada, Jeff Bingaman, Attorney General of New Mexico, Robert Abrams, Attorney General of New York, William J. Brown, Attorney General of Ohio, Dennis J. Roberts II, Attorney General of Rhode Island, William M. Leech, Jr., Attorney General of Tennessee, M. Jerome Diamond, Attorney General of Vermont, and Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Attorney General of West Virginia; for the Conference of Chief Justices by Griffin B. Bell, James D. Miller, and James D. Whisenand; and for the California State Public Defenders Association et al. by Herbert M. Barish and Wilbur F. Littlefield.
Supreme Court of United States.
CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.
The question presented on this appeal is whether, consistent with constitutional guarantees, a state may provide for radio, television, and still photographic coverage of a criminal trial for public broadcast, notwithstanding the objection of the accused.
I
A
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