PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS INCORPORATED v. JENNINGS

No. 10638.

107 Ariz. 557 (1971)

490 P.2d 563

PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. Honorable Renz D. JENNINGS, Justice of the Peace, East Phoenix Precinct #1, Maricopa County, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gust, Rosenfeld & Divelbess by James F. Henderson, Phoenix, for petitioner.

Snell & Wilmer by Mark Wilmer and Stephen W. Craig, Phoenix, for amici curiae KTAR Broadcasting Co., KOOL Radio-Television, Inc.

Ross P. Lee, Public Defender by Bedford Douglass, Jr., Phoenix, for respondent John Gilbert Freeman.

Moise Berger, Maricopa County Atty. by John Trombino, Phoenix, for respondent County Attorney.


STRUCKMEYER, Chief Justice.

This special action was brought by Phoenix Newspapers, Incorporated against the Honorable Renz D. Jennings, Justice of the Peace, East Phoenix Precinct #1, Maricopa County, Arizona, Moise Berger, Maricopa County Attorney, and John Gilbert Freeman, to prohibit the enforcement of an order excluding petitioner's reporters and the public from Freeman's preliminary hearing on seven counts of murder. Moise Berger, Maricopa County Attorney, in...

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