CBS, INC. v. COBB

No. 88-3034.

536 So.2d 1067 (1988)

CBS, INC. and Victoria M. Corderi, Petitioners, v. Honorable Wayne L. COBB, Circuit Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit; Robert Joe Long and State of Florida, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

November 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald M. Middlebrooks, Thomas R. Julin and Norman Davis of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for petitioners.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Allyn Giambalvo and Brad Permar, Asst. Public Defenders, Bartow, for respondent Robert Joe Long.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Peggy A. Quince, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, James T. Russell, State Atty., and C. Marie King, Asst. State Atty., Clearwater, for respondent State.


PER CURIAM.

CBS, Inc. and reporter Victoria Corderi seek an emergency writ of certiorari to quash an order of the circuit court requiring them to relinquish unpublished film footage to the defendant in a pending criminal case. We deny the petition.

This controversy arose during the trial of Bobby Joe Long, charged with first degree murder. Long has been convicted of this same murder once before, but the supreme court reversed that conviction and ordered

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