STATE v. TALLMAN

Nos. 84-341, 84-461.

537 A.2d 422 (1987)

STATE of Vermont v. Delbert Clyde TALLMAN (Herald Assoc., Valley Publishing Corp. & Gannett Satellite Info. Network, Intervenors-Appellants).

Supreme Court of Vermont.

Reargument Denied October 2, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Hemley and Dennis R. Pearson of Gravel and Shea, Burlington, for intervenors-appellants.

Walter M. Morris, Jr., Defender Gen., and Henry Hinton, Appellate Defender, Montpelier, for defendant-appellee.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and HILL, PECK, GIBSON and HAYES, JJ.


HILL, Justice.

This case presents the Court with the vexatious and escalating problem of balancing a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by an impartial jury against the public's claimed First Amendment right of access to pretrial criminal proceedings. We write at length because of the importance of this issue and because we believe that the trial court failed to balance properly these competing concerns.

The defendant in this case, Delbert Tallman...

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