PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, INC.; the Miami Herald Publishing Company; and News and Sun Sentinel Company, Petitioners,
v.
The Honorable Richard Bryan BURK, Linda Aurilio and State of Florida, Respondents.
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February 19, 1987.
Rehearing Denied April 21, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Donald M. Middlebrooks, L. Martin Reeder, Jr., Thomas R. Julin and Norman Davis of Steel, Hector & Davis, Parker D. Thomson, Sanford L. Bohrer, Jerold I. Budney and Gene A. Turk, Jr. of Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Richard J. Ovelmen, Miami, and Janice Burton Sharpstein and Laura Besvinick of Sharpstein & Sharpstein, Coconut Grove, and Ray Ferrero, Jr., Wilton L. Strickland and Ricki Tannen of Ferrero, Middlebrooks, Strickland and Fischer, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, for petitioners.
Robert A. Butterworth, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Louis F. Hubener and Mark C. Menser, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, and Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and Margaret Good, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for respondents.
George K. Rahdert of Rahdert, Anderson & Richardson, St. Petersburg, for amicus curiae, Times Pub. Co.
Supreme Court of Florida.
PER CURIAM.
We review Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. v. Burk,471 So.2d 571 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), wherein over the objection of both the prosecutor and the accused, petitioners (the press) sought to be present at pretrial discovery depositions and to obtain copies of depositions which had not been transcribed or filed with the trial court. The trial judge ruled, essentially, that the taking of depositions was not a judicial proceeding...
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