EX PARTE BIRMINGHAM NEWS CO., INC.

CR 92-971.

624 So.2d 1117 (1993)

Ex parte The BIRMINGHAM NEWS COMPANY, INC., The Associated Press, and The Advertiser Company, Inc. (In re STATE of Alabama v. Harold Guy HUNT).

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

June 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Barton, Gilbert E. Johnston, Jr. and Hollinger F. Barnard, Birmingham, for petitioners.

E. Cutter Hughes, Jr., H. Knox McMillan and G. Rick Hall, Huntsville, for Alabama Press Ass'n.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., and George Lamar Beck, Jr., Montgomery, for respondents.

Richard Gill, Robert Segall, Terry Brown and Fairley McDonald III, Montgomery, for Judge Randall Thomas.


PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

This is a petition for writ of mandamus filed in this Court by The Birmingham News Company, Inc., The Associated Press, The Advertiser Company, and joined by the Alabama Press Association, as intervenor, seeking to compel Judge H. Randall Thomas of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County to open to the press the pretrial proceedings in the criminal prosecution of the governor of Alabama. "The news...

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