JOHNSON v. BENTLEY

No. 84-738.

457 So.2d 507 (1984)

Paul JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. The Honorable E. Randolph BENTLEY, Circuit Judge in the Tenth Judicial Circuit, in and for Polk County, State of Florida, and Bonnie Anita Petty and James Petty, Her Husband, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied October 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George K. Rahdert of Rahdert, Anderson & Richardson, St. Petersburg, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and James W. Sloan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent E. Randolph Bentley.

R. Kent Lilly of Frost, Purcell and Lilly, Bartow, for respondents Bonnie Petty and James Petty.


DANAHY, Judge.

In a case of first impression in Florida, a newspaper photographer asks this court to quash a discovery order in a civil action requiring him, a nonparty, to produce unpublished photographs of an automobile accident. We grant his petition for certiorari and quash the order.

The petitioner describes himself as a professional photojournalist employed by the Lakeland Ledger, a newspaper of daily circulation in Polk County, Florida. The respondents...

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