BALTIMORE SUN v. COLBERT

No. 159, September Term, 1990.

323 Md. 290 (1991)

593 A.2d 224

THE BALTIMORE SUN COMPANY ET AL. v. TYRONE MICHAEL COLBERT.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary R. Craig (Doyle & Craig, P.A., Baltimore), on brief, for appellant.

Gary S. Offutt, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and MARVIN H. SMITH, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The primary questions presented are (1) whether the press and the public are entitled to prior notice of, and an opportunity to oppose, an oral motion to close a courtroom during a pretrial proceeding in a criminal case and (2) whether the court's hearing on the closure motion, and its sealing of a related written motion, satisfied the requirements of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article 40 of the Maryland...

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