GEORGIA TELEVISION COMPANY v. STATE

45037.

257 Ga. 764 (1988)

363 S.E.2d 528

GEORGIA TELEVISION COMPANY d/b/a WSB-TV et al. v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied February 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, James A. Demetry, for appellants.

Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, G. Terry Jackson, Michael G. Schiavone, Thomas M. West, Stephen B. Bright, Assistant District Attorneys, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Susan v. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


GREGORY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a ruling by the trial court barring television cameras from the courtroom during pretrial hearings in the prosecution of George Elder Dungee. We affirm.

Dungee was one of the defendants convicted and sentenced to death in 1974 for the murder of six members of the Alday family in Donalsonville, Georgia. His conviction was vacated in 1985 by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals because extensive pretrial publicity in...

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