NEWSPAPERS OF NEW ENGLAND, INC. v. BLOOM


1988 Mass. App. Div. 65 (1988)

Newspapers of New England, Inc. vs. James H. Bloom, Clerk-Magistrate, and another

Massachusetts Appellate Division, Western District.

April 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond R. Randall for the petitioner.

H. Reed Witherby for the respondents.

Present: Larkin, McGuane & Lenhoff, JJ.


Larkin, J.

This case raises issues concerning a putative right of access to certain pre-trial papers generated in connection with a prospective criminal proceeding. It involves the always delicate attempt to accommodate the competing interests of the public's "Right to Know" with a defendant's right to a criminal trial devoid of unwarranted and corrosive prejudicial pre-trial publicity. The factual context from which these issues arise is as follows:

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