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EX PARTE THE ISLAND PACKET

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308 S.C. 198 (1992)

417 S.E.2d 575

Ex parte THE ISLAND PACKET and The Beaufort Gazette, Appellants. In re CHRISTOPHER F., a minor Under the Age of Seventeen, Defendant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided April 27, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Bender, of Baker, Barwick, Ravenel & Bender, Columbia, for appellant.

Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medlock, Asst. Attys. Gen. Harold M. Coombs, Jr. and Amie L. Clifford, Columbia, and Sol. Randolph Murdaugh, III, Hampton, for respondent.

Kathy D. Lindsay, of Garber, Baldwin, Fairbanks & Lindsay, Beaufort, guardian ad litem, for defendant

Heard March 9, 1992.

Decided April 27, 1992.

MOORE, Justice:

This appeal is from a family court order denying appellants access to transcripts of two hearings held in a juvenile matter and closing a pending hearing in the same case. We reverse.

FACTS

Defendant Christopher F. was fifteen years old when he was charged in juvenile petitions with murdering his father and stepmother. A detention hearing, closed to the public, was held...

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