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STATE v. HELTZEL

No. 45S03-9003-CR-225.

552 N.E.2d 31 (1990)

STATE of Indiana, Appellant, v. William HELTZEL and Mark Kiesling, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

March 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, John E. Crawford, Jr., Pros. Atty., Crown Point, for appellant.

David C. Jensen, Richard A. Hanning, Charles W. Webster, Eichhorn, Eichhorn & Link, Hammond, for appellees.

James P. Fenton, Barrett & McNagny, Fort Wayne, for amici curiae Journal-Gazette Co., Home News Enterprises, Nixon Newspapers, Inc., South Bend Tribune, WSBT Stations, Inc., and Inland Press Ass'n.

Richard L. Rennick, Jr., Chairman, Indiana Pros. Attys. Council, Covington, Stephen J. Johnson, Indiana Pros. Attys. Council, Indianapolis, for Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council.

Marce Gonzalez, Jr., Cooperating Atty., Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Hilbrich, Cunningham & Schwerd, Highland, Richard A. Waples, Legal Director, Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Indianapolis, for amicus curiae Indiana Civil Liberties Union.

Edward O. DeLaney, Jan M. Carroll, Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, for amici curiae Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc., American Soc. of Newspaper Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press, Soc. of Professional Journalists and Indiana University School of Journalism.

Richard W. Cardwell, Ober, Symmes, Cardwell Voyles & Zahn, Indianapolis, for Hoosier State Press Ass'n.

DeBRULER, Justice.

William Heltzel and Mark Kiesling were charged with indirect contempt of court, I.C. 34-4-7-3 through -5, in an information filed by the Lake County Prosecutor in August of 1987. At the time, Heltzel and Kiesling were reporters for the Hammond Times, and the contempt charges grew out of their questioning of two men who had served on a grand jury which had been impaneled on July 18, 1984, and discharged in January of 1985. The information charged...

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