NEWS AMERICAN DIV., HEARST CORP. v. STATE

No. 409, September Term, 1981.

49 Md. App. 422 (1981)

431 A.2d 1387

THE NEWS AMERICAN DIVISION, THE HEARST CORPORATION, INTERVENOR v. STATE OF MARYLAND ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 21, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore Sherbow, with whom were William A. Agee and Sherbow, Shea & Tatelbaum, P.A. on the brief, for appellant.

Alfred L. Scanlan, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Alan Betten, Special Assistant Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Howard B. Gersh, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee State of Maryland.

Gary S. Offutt, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellees George Green and Willie Green.

The cause was argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MORTON and COUCH, JJ.


GILBERT, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

HISTORY OF THE CASE

This case appeared initially in this Court as an appeal from a so-called "gag order" passed by the Criminal Court of Baltimore (Pines, J.) dated April 29, 1981.1 The order was sought by George Green and Willie Green (the Greens), appellees and cross-appellants, and defendants in a criminal proceeding involving allegations of a double...

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