FLORIDA FREEDOM NEWSPAPERS, INC., Petitioner,
v.
Robert L. McCRARY, Jr., Circuit Judge, Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, State of Florida, Respondent.
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February 11, 1988.
February 11, 1988.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Franklin R. Harrison and William A. Lewis of Sale, Brown & Smoak, Chartered, Panama City, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Louis F. Hubener, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.
Richard J. Ovelmen, Miami, Laura Besvinick of Sharpstein & Sharpstein, P.A., Coconut Grove, Parker D. Thomson and Sanford L. Bohrer of Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth & Tazook, and Berald B. Cope of Greer, Homer, Cope & Bonner, P.A., Miami, amici curiae for The Miami Herald Pub. Co., The Florida Press Ass'n, The Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, and The Florida First Amendment Foundation.
C. Gary Williams and Michael J. Glazer of Ausley, McMullen, McGehee, Carothers and Proctor, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Tallahassee Democrat, Inc.
Supreme Court of Florida.
SHAW, Justice.
We review Florida Freedom Newspapers Inc. v. McCrary,497 So.2d 652 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986), to determine if the lower court correctly construed the first and sixth amendments of the United States Constitution. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.
The facts of the case are as follows. A newspaper in general circulation in Jackson County reported that prisoners in the county jail were...
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