INVESTIGATION: FLORIDA STATUTE 27.04, SUBPOENA OF ROCHE v. STATE

No. 90-3071.

589 So.2d 978 (1991)

In re INVESTIGATION: FLORIDA STATUTE 27.04, SUBPOENA OF Tim ROCHE, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Certification Denied December 27, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Lord, Jr., of Crary, Buchanan, Bowdish & Bovie, Chartered, Stuart, and Anne R. Noble of Baker & Hostetler, Washington, D.C., for appellant — Tim Roche.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Sarah B. Mayer, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


DOWNEY, Judge.

This case involves a consideration of the tension between the constitutional right of the public to unencumbered access to information from anonymous sources and the generalized governmental interests in protecting the secrecy of juvenile proceedings from public scrutiny. More particularly, the case focuses upon a determination of the priority of societal interests in requiring certain proceedings to remain confidential as opposed to a reporter's privilege...

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