MIAMI HERALD PUB. CO. v. STATE

No. 77-2530.

363 So.2d 603 (1978)

MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Division of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc., D/B/a the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., D/B/a the Palm Beach Post, Appellants, v. STATE of Florida and Peter Joseph Salerno, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 25, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot D'Alemberte and Donald M. Middlebrooks of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for appellant — Miami Herald Publishing Co.

Florence B. Snyder, Boca Raton, for appellant — Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc.

James D. Spaniolo, Miami, Staff Counsel for appellant — Miami Herald Publishing Co.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, James D. Whisenand, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Douglas C. Kearney, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee — State of Florida.

Philip G. Butler, Jr. of Foley, Colton & Butler, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee — Peter Joseph Salerno.


LETTS, Judge.

Two major newspaper chains here appeal a trial Judge's decision which excluded the media from a sentencing hearing and thereafter sealed the record thereof.

We affirm but also remand.

In the case at bar Salerno, a jewel thief internationally known to the authorities, was convicted of burglary and grand larceny charges. Some eleven months later at the request of defense counsel and with the acquiescence of the State, the trial judge, without...

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