STAR JOURNAL PUB. CORP. v. COUNTY COURT IN AND FOR PUEBLO COUNTY

No. 28176.

591 P.2d 1028 (1979)

The STAR JOURNAL PUBLISHING CORPORATION, a Colorado Corporation, Petitioner, v. The COUNTY COURT (DIVISION 2) IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF PUEBLO, State of Colorado, Honorable Eugene T. Halaas, Jr., Presiding, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petersen & Fonda, P. C., Thomas T. Farley, Pueblo, for petitioner.

No appearance for respondent.

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Craig L. Truman, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Paula K. Miller, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for amicus curiae.


HODGES, Chief Justice.

This is an original proceeding in which petitioner seeks relief in the nature of prohibition against an order of respondent county court judge. We issued an order to show cause why respondent's order directing that a preliminary hearing be closed to all members of the news media but not to the public, should not be vacated. Respondent elected not to respond to our order, and we permitted the Colorado State Public Defender to proceed as amicus...

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