OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING COMPANY v. MARTIN

No. 55191.

618 P.2d 944 (1980)

The OKLAHOMA PUBLISHING COMPANY, A corporation, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Floyd MARTIN, Judge of the District Court for the Seventh Judicial District, Canadian County, Oklahoma, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 14, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Machanic and Michael Minnis, Pierson, Ball & Dowd, Oklahoma City, for petitioner.

Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., Manville T. Buford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for respondent.


PER CURIAM:

Petitioner's application to assume original jurisdiction GRANTED. The question of the right of the public or the media to attend a mental competency hearing or trial, conducted under the provision of Title 43A, Okla. Stat., wherein the alleged mentally incompetent is the subject of criminal proceedings, is rendered moot by the enactment of H.B. No. 1836, Thirty-Seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session.

Hereafter, all proceedings conducted pursuant...

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