WBZ-TV4 v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT


408 Mass. 595 (1990)

562 N.E.2d 817

WBZ-TV4 vs. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Skelly (Philip Y. Brown with him) for the plaintiff.

Marina Khazanov, Assistant District Attorney (David B. Mark, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the District Attorney for the Suffolk District.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

In these consolidated appeals, WBZ-TV4 (WBZ) challenges orders of two single justices of this court denying WBZ access to materials in the so-called Carol Stuart murder case. The materials in question involve: (a) the videotape of a lineup at which Charles Stuart identified William Bennett as the man who had shot Stuart and his wife, Carol Stuart; and (b) a tape-recorded statement of a witness in the investigation.

Carol Stuart was murdered, and...

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