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HERALD ASS'N, INC. v. ELLISON

No. 34-80.

419 A.2d 323 (1980)

HERALD ASSOCIATION, INC. and McClure Newspapers, Inc. v. Honorable George F. ELLISON and Rutland Superior Court.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

July 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gravel, Shea & Wright, Ltd., Robert B. Hemley, Burlington (On the Memorandum), for petitioners.

Miller, Norton & Cleary, Rutland, for respondent Morgan.

Before BARNEY, C. J., DALEY, BILLINGS and HILL, JJ., and VALENTE, Superior Judge, Specially Assigned.

BARNEY, Chief Justice.

This petition for extraordinary relief arises from the exclusion of the news media and the general public from a pretrial hearing in State v. Bernard R. Morgan, Jr., Docket No. S3-79Rcr. The case prompted considerable press attention, presumably because the defendant was accused of assaulting an assistant judge of the Rutland Superior Court. The defendant moved to suppress certain statements alleged to have been made in violation of his...

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