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STATE EX REL. PENSACOLA NEWS-JOURNAL, INC. v. FLEET

No. WW-41.

388 So.2d 1106 (1980)

STATE of Florida ex rel. the PENSACOLA NEWS-JOURNAL, INC. and Florida Freedom Newspapers, Inc., Petitioners, v. The Honorable Erwin FLEET, Circuit Judge of the First Judicial Circuit in and for Okaloosa County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Clark of Clark, Partington, Hart & Hart, Pensacola, for The Pensacola News-Journal.

Robert E. Lee, Fort Walton Beach, for Florida Freedom Newspapers, Inc.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Lucy H. Harris, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

This cause is before us on a motion to review an order closing a pretrial hearing on a motion to suppress an allegedly illegally obtained confession in the case of State v. Livingston, Case No. 80-286, now pending in the First Judicial Circuit.

The order directing closure was entered upon the court's own motion. Counsel for the defendant objected to a closed hearing and the State took no position on the issue. It is apparent that in ordering...

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