SATZ v. NEWS AND SUN-SENTINEL CO.

No. 83-2544.

484 So.2d 590 (1985)

Michael J. SATZ, State Attorney for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, and Kent C. Neal, Assistant State Attorney, Appellants, v. NEWS AND SUN-SENTINEL COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

On Motion for Rehearing March 26, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Russell S. Bohn and Robert S. Jaegers, Asst. Attys. Gen., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Timothy P. Beavers and Ricki Tannen of Ferrero, Middlebrooks & Strickland, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


On Motion for Rehearing En Banc March 26, 1986.

PER CURIAM.

At issue is whether one's status as a newsperson confers a privilege, either conditional or absolute, to withhold physical evidence of a crime. We answer in the negative and quash the trial court's order which found a conditional privilege.

The Sun-Sentinel newspaper published a series of articles, with accompanying photographs, revealing misuse of city equipment by employees of the City of...

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