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GANNETT PACIFIC CORP. v. RICHARDSON

No. 6946.

580 P.2d 49 (1978)

GANNETT PACIFIC CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, dba Honolulu Star Bulletin, Lee Enterprises, Incorporated dba KGMB-TV, and Honolulu Advertiser, Inc. dba Honolulu Advertiser, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Robert RICHARDSON, State of Hawaii, through the Department of Prosecuting Attorney, Iupeli T. Pusi, aka Iupeli Tuua, and Solonu'u Tuua, aka Solonu'u Pusi, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

May 26, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Dezzani, Honolulu, for Gannett Pacific Corp., petitioner.

Jeffrey N. Watanabe, Honolulu, for Lee Enterprises, Inc., petitioner.

Jeffrey S. Portnoy, Honolulu, for Honolulu Advertiser, Inc., petitioner.

Walter G. Chuck, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Honolulu, for Judge Richardson, respondent.

Donald Tsukiyama, Public Defender, Honolulu, for Iupeli T. Pusi and Solonu'u Tuua, respondents.

Randolph Slaton, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Honolulu, for State of Hawaii, respondent.

Before OGATA, Acting C.J., MENOR, J., Circuit Judge LUM in place of RICHARDSON, C.J., recused; Circuit Judge HAYASHI in place of KOBAYASHI, J., disqualified; and Circuit Judge BURNS in place of KIDWELL, J., recused.

MENOR, Justice.

A petition for a writ of prohibition has been addressed to this court by representatives of the news media requesting the issuance of an order prohibiting the respondent district judge from closing to the public the preliminary hearing in the case of State v. Pusi and Tuua, Case Nos. 2P through 8P and 9P through 15P, District Court of the First Circuit, Honolulu Division. The hearing had been open to the public without restriction when it first...

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