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SEATTLE TIMES CO. v. ISHIKAWA

Nos. 47604-7, 47623-3.

97 Wn.2d 30 (1982)

640 P.2d 716

SEATTLE TIMES COMPANY, Petitioner, v. RICHARD M. ISHIKAWA, as Judge of the Superior Court, Respondent. THE HEARST CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. RICHARD M. ISHIKAWA, as Judge of the Superior Court, Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

February 11, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Wright, Todd, Riese & Jones, by P. Cameron DeVore, Marshall J. Nelson, and Daniel M. Waggoner, for petitioner Seattle Times Co.

Foster, Pepper & Riviera, Camden M. Hall, and G. Richard Hill, for petitioner Hearst Corp.

Norm Maleng, Prosecuting Attorney, and Fred A. Kaseburg, Deputy, for respondent.

BRACHTENBACH, C.J.

The issue is whether a superior court judge was justified in closing a pretrial hearing involving a motion to dismiss. A corollary question is presented by the judge's sealing of the record of that proceeding and his continued refusal to open the record to the public.

This action arose out of the case of State v. Marler, a murder trial conducted in the King County courtroom of Judge Richard Ishikawa. Two Seattle daily newspapers, the Seattle...

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