ROCKDALE CITIZEN PUB. CO., INC. v. STATE

No. S96A0603.

468 S.E.2d 764 (1996)

266 Ga. 579

The ROCKDALE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. v. The STATE of Georgia et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Major, William B. Brown, Heyman & Sizemore, Atlanta, for Rockdale Citizen Pub. Co., Inc.

Cheryl Fisher Custer, Dist. Atty., Conyers, Calvin A. Leipold, Jr., Decatur, John J. Martin, Jr., Martin & McGuire, P.C., Avondale Estate, for Appellees.

Gerald R. Weber, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta, Amy R. Wolverton, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Stephen J. Wermiel, Georgia State University, Atlanta, David E. Hudson, James B. Ellington, Hull, Towill, Norman & Barrett, P.C., Augusta, Roy E. Barnes, Barnes, Browning, Tanksley & Casurella, Marietta, Peter C. Canfield, James A. Demetry, James W. Kimmell, Jr., Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Atlanta.


HUNSTEIN, Justice.

In Rockdale Citizen Publishing Company v. State of Georgia, 266 Ga. 92, 463 S.E.2d 864 (1995), this Court reviewed an order of the Superior Court of Rockdale County closing to the press and public all pretrial evidentiary hearings in the pending capital prosecution against Marvin Earl Turner, Jr. A majority of this Court found that there was evidence adduced to support the...

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