EVANSVILLE COURIER v. PROS. VANDERBURGH CTY.

No. 82A01-8604-CV-89.

499 N.E.2d 286 (1986)

In re Subpoenas Issued Relative to Vanderburgh County Treasurer's Office Investigation. the EVANSVILLE COURIER, Appellant (Movant below), v. PROSECUTOR, Vanderburgh County, Appellee (Respondent below).

Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District.

Rehearing Denied December 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick A. Shoulders, Jeffrey A. Wilhite, Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, Evansville, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., David Michael Wallman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


ROBERTSON, Presiding Judge.

The movant-appellant Evansville Courier appeals from a trial court decision denying access to public documents.

The stipulated facts show that the Courier is a newspaper of general circulation in the Evansville, Indiana, area and that the respondent-appellee Robert Pigman is the duly elected prosecuting attorney for Vanderburgh County, Indiana. In January, 1986, Pigman, in the course of an ongoing criminal investigation, and pursuant...

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