TRIBUNE CO. v. PUBLIC RECORDS

No. 85-1776.

493 So.2d 480 (1986)

The TRIBUNE COMPANY, Mary Jo Melone, Times Publishing Company, and William Riley Jent, Appellants, v. In re PUBLIC RECORDS, P.C.S.O. # 79-35504 MILLER/JENT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied September 5, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg D. Thomas, Steven L. Brannock and Laura Whiteside of Holland & Knight, Tampa, for appellant Tribune Co.

George K. Rahdert and M. David Shapiro of Rahdert, Anderson and Richardson, St. Petersburg, for appellants, Times Publishing Co. and Mary Jo Melone.

Eleanor Jackson Piel, New York, for appellant William Riley Jent.

James T. Russell, State Atty. and C. Marie King and Phil Van Allen, Asst. State Attys., Clearwater, and Norman Palumbo, New Port Richey, Legal Counsel, for Sheriff of Pasco County.


RYDER, Judge.

We reverse an order of the Pasco County Circuit Court denying appellants access to certain public records in the custody of the Pasco County Sheriff.

Ernest Lee Miller and William Riley Jent were convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1979, and their convictions were affirmed by the Florida Supreme Court. Miller v. State, 415 So.2d 1262 (Fla. 1982); Jent v. State, 408 So...

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