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R. W. PAGE CORP. v. LUMPKIN

38726.

249 Ga. 576 (1982)

292 S.E.2d 815

R. W. PAGE CORPORATION v. LUMPKIN et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 29, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grogan, Layfield, Agnew & Rumer, L. Martelle Layfield, Jr., for appellant.

Arthur E. Mallory III, District Attorney, Harger W. Hoyt, Assistant District Attorney, Marc E. Acree, Zachry & Kirby, Louis J. Kirby, Alfred F. Zachry, for appellees.

Rogers & Wells, Richard N. Winfield, David A. Schulz, Debra S. Weaver, Hansell, Post, Brandon & Dorsey, Albert G. Norman, Jr., David J. Bailey, Elizabeth G. Crosby, Sell & Melton, E. S. Sell, Jr., Susan S. Cole, Hull, Towill, Norman & Barrett, W. Hale Barrett, David E. Hudson, Baker & Hostetler, Bruce W. Sanford, Lee Levine, Brian S. Harvey, Charles T. Shean III, Wayne B. Mangum, J. Dunham McAllister, amici curiae.

JORDAN, Chief Justice.

The single issue presented is whether and, if so, when and how, trial and pretrial hearings in criminal cases may be closed to the public and to representatives of the news media.

Quite predictably, this issue arises out of a melodrama containing all of the elements that news reporters and their editors know from experience will excite the interest of substantial numbers of their readers, viewers and listeners.1

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