FEDERATED PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. KURTZ

No. 46124.

94 Wn.2d 51 (1980)

615 P.2d 440

FEDERATED PUBLICATIONS, INC., Petitioner, v. J.S. KURTZ, ET AL, Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

July 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beaty & Childress, by Robert E. Beaty (Robert C. Bernius and Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, of counsel), for petitioner.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and Kevin M. Ryan, Assistant, for respondents.

P. Cameron DeVore and Stephen C. Sieberson on behalf of Allied Daily Newspapers, George R. Nock, James E. Beaver, and Gene R. Moses, amici curiae.


WILLIAMS, J.

This case presents the question of whether a trial court properly barred the press and public from a pretrial suppression hearing. We hold that it did.

The stipulated facts giving rise to this action against a state officer are as follows:

On November 1, 1978, the State of Washington charged Jo Elliott Tharp with the crime of murder in the second degree, alleging that on March 30, 1978, Tharp had murdered William Ray Bond.

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