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MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO. v. CHAPPELL

No. 81-613.

403 So.2d 1342 (1981)

The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Division of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc., and Robert Rivas, Petitioners, v. The Honorable Bill G. CHAPPELL and Edward Diaz, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied October 16, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul & Thomson and Sanford L. Bohrer and Franklin G. Burt and Richard J. Ovelmen, James D. Spaniolo, Miami, for petitioners.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Anthony C. Musto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Gerald R. Herms, Tampa, for respondents.

Before HUBBART, C.J., and BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

BASKIN, Judge.

In a petition for appellate review brought pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.100(d),1 the Miami Herald asks us to rule that the trial court erred when it closed the courtroom and then denied the press and public access to tapes of testimony presented during a criminal pretrial competency hearing conducted by the court. We agree that the trial court committed error...

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