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MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO. v. LEWIS

No. 79-2557.

383 So.2d 236 (1980)

The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Division of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc. (the Miami Herald), Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. (Palm Beach Post-Times), Wtwv, Inc. (Wtvx-Tv, Channel 34, Fort Pierce), Cape Publications, Inc. (Today) and Vero Beach Press-Journal, Inc. (Vero Beach Press-Journal), Petitioners, v. Honorable Royce R. LEWIS, the State of Florida, and Brooks John Bellay, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

On Rehearing May 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford L. Bohrer, Parker D. Thomson and Richard J. Ovelmen of Paul & Thomson, Miami, for petitioners.

William T. McCluan, Melbourne, for petitioner Cape Publications, Inc.

Elton H. Schwarz, Public Defender, and Paul B. Kanarek, Asst. Public Defender, Vero Beach, for respondent Brooks John Bellay.

ON PETITION FOR REVIEW OF ORDER CLOSING PRETRIAL SUPPRESSION HEARING TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC

LETTS, Judge.

This proceeding, filed by the media under Florida Appellate Rule 9.100(d), protests a lower court ruling which (1) closed a pre-trial hearing on a motion to suppress and (2) sealed the records pertaining to that suppression hearing until the selection and swearing in of the jury at the forthcoming trial. We affirm the former and reverse the latter....

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