KNSD CHANNELS 7/39 v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. D029949.

74 Cal.Rptr.2d 595 (1998)

63 Cal.App.4th 1200

KNSD CHANNELS 7/39 et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of San Diego County, Respondent; Ricardo Vasquez et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

May 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich and Guylyn R. Cummins, San Diego, for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

Plourd and Steigerwalt, Donald L. Levine, San Diego, Sandra Resnick, El Cajon, Benjamin Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Mangarin, San Diego, for Real Parties in Interest.


McINTYRE, Associate Justice.

We are presented with the issue of whether the public, through the news media, has a right to obtain copies of evidence introduced and played for the jury in a criminal trial. Absent a showing that providing such access threatens the integrity of the evidence, we conclude that the answer to this question is "yes;" accordingly, we grant the petition and issue the writ.

Real parties in interest (the defendants) were arrested and...

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