APPLICATION OF KSTP TELEVISION

No. Cr. 3-80-72.

504 F.Supp. 360 (1980)

In re APPLICATION of KSTP TELEVISION for Video Tapes in the Case of UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. MING SEN SHIUE, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota.

December 1, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Dixon, St. Paul, Minn., KSTP-TV, and Sidney Barrows, Leonard, Street & Deinard, Minneapolis, Minn., for applicant, KSTP-TV.

Thomas P. Kane and Paul R. Hannah, Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard & Donnelly, St. Paul, Minn., for applicant WCCO-TV.

Thomas K. Berg, U. S. Atty., and Thorwald H. Anderson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., for the United States of America.

Warren E. Eastlund and William S. Seeley, Johnson & Eastlund, Minneapolis, Minn., and M. J. Galvin, Jr. and Terence N. Doyle, Briggs & Morgan, St. Paul, Minn., for Mary Stauffer, objector.

Ronald I. Meshbesher, Kenneth Meshbesher and Carol M. Grant, Meshbesher, Singer & Spence, Minneapolis, Minn., for Ming Sen Shiue, defendant-objector.

Robert W. Johnson, Anoka County Atty., and Robert A. Stanick, Asst. County Atty., Anoka, Minn., for Anoka County Atty., objector.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DEVITT, Chief Judge.

The issue here centers on the proper exercise of the court's discretion to grant access to its judicial records. The applicant, KSTP-TV, a commercial television station, seeks to view and copy some three hours of video tapes received in evidence in a criminal case, United States v. Ming Sen Shiue, 508 F.Supp. 455 (D.Minn.1980). Defendant Shiue was convicted of kidnapping...

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