KGTV CHANNEL 10 v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. D021046.

26 Cal.App.4th 1673 (1994)

32 Cal. Rptr.2d 181

KGTV CHANNEL 10 et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Respondent; NIKI M., Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

July 21, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich, Guylyn R. Cummins and Terri P. Durham for Petitioner.

Lloyd M. Harmon, Jr., County Counsel, and R. Mark Beesley, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Edwin L. Miller, Jr., District Attorney, Thomas F. McArdle and Richard J. Sachs, Deputy District Attorneys, Loren I. Mandel, Alternate Public Defender, Jacqueline C. Crowle and Mary Ellen Attridge, Alternate Deputy Public Defenders, for Real Party in Interest.

Francis J. Bardsley, Public Defender, and Greg S. Maizlish, Deputy Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

NARES, J.

In this case, we are called upon to decide whether the court may prohibit the media from publishing the name or likeness of a minor charged with murder at a juvenile court detention hearing when the minor's name and image were broadcast by the media at her arrest a few days before the hearing.

Murder is one of the serious offenses which opens the door to a public hearing. The media has a statutory right to...

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