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O'LEARY v. SUPERIOR COURT

Nos. S-4105, S-4131 to S-4134 and S-4159.

816 P.2d 163 (1991)

Kevin O'LEARY, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Times, State of Alaska, Stephen E. Branchflower, and Dwayne W. McConnell, Appellants, v. SUPERIOR COURT, THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, and the Honorable Brian C. Shortell, as Presiding Judge, Appellees. In the Matter of the Grand Jury for the Third Judicial District at Anchorage for the Term of Proceedings in January, 1990. In re SPECIAL GRAND JURY.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 9, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clark Reed Nichols, James N. Leik, Perkins Coie, Anchorage, for appellant O'Leary.

D. John McKay, Middleton, Timme & McKay, Anchorage, for appellant Anchorage Daily News.

Theodore E. Fleischer, Cynthia L. Ducey, Guess & Rudd, Anchorage, for appellant Anchorage Times.

Randy M. Olsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fairbanks, Douglas B. Baily, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellants McConnell and Branchflower.

David Mannheimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Douglas B. Baily, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellant State of Alaska.

James P. Doogan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fairbanks, Douglas B. Baily, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for the Grand Jury.

James H. McComas, Schleuss & McComas, Howard S. Trickey, Jermain, Dunnagan & Owens, P.C., Anchorage, John B. Patterson, Kelly & Patterson, William F. Dewey, William P. Bryson, Anchorage, for interested parties.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Chief Justice.

These appeals concern an investigative grand jury report which was subject to judicial review under Criminal Rule 6.1. The issue raised in O'Leary v. Superior Court, No. S-4105, is whether Criminal Rule 6.1 violates article I, section 8 of the Alaska Constitution. We answer that it does not.

The issue presented in In re Special Grand Jury, Nos. S-4131-34, 4159, is whether the superior court erred in...

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