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IN RE SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASS'N

Nos. 91-5551, 91-5925.

946 F.2d 1037 (1991)

In re The SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION, Petitioner. In re The SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION; the State-Record Company, Inc.; the Evening Post Publishing Company; the Greenville News-Piedmont Company; the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, a Division of The New York Times Company, Incorporated; East Coast Newspapers, Incorporated, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Ray Bender, Baker, Barwick, Ravenel & Bender, Columbia, S.C., argued for petitioner South Carolina Press Ass'n.

Edward Bart Daniel, U.S. Atty., Dean Eichelberger, Asst. U.S. Atty., Columbia, S.C., on brief, for respondent U.S.

James Hanjo Lengel, Holler, Olive, Merry, Lengel & Garner, Columbia, S.C., on brief, for respondent Paul Wayne Derrick.

Before WIDENER and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

OPINION

CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

This matter is before the court for review of orders of the district court excluding the press and public from the voir dire of potential jurors in the criminal prosecutions of certain state legislators charged with selling their votes in the South Carolina General Assembly. This is a consolidation of petitions for writs of mandamus filed by the petitioners, the publishers of newspapers of general circulation...

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