KEARNS-TRIBUNE CORP. v. HORNAK

No. 960265-CA.

917 P.2d 79 (1996)

The KEARNS-TRIBUNE CORPORATION (publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune) and KUTV (Channel 2), Petitioners, v. The Honorable Kimberly K. HORNAK, a Judge in the Third District Juvenile Court, State of Utah, Salt Lake County, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

May 7, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Patrick O'Brien, Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, and Sharon E. Sonnenreich, Kearns-Tribune Corporation General, Salt Lake City, for Petitioner The Kearns-Tribune Corporation.

Randy L. Dryer, Parson Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, for Petitioner KUTV.

Brent M. Johnson, Administrative Office of the Courts, Salt Lake City, for Respondent.

Virginia O. Christensen and Gregory M. Warner, Deputy District Attorneys, Salt Lake City, for the Salt Lake District Attorney.

Kim Rilling, Salt Lake City, for J.K.

Penny Heal Trask, Salt Lake City, Guardian Ad Litem for J.K.

David W. Slaughter, Snow Christensen & Martineau, Salt Lake City, for J.K.'s Father.

Jeffrey J. Hunt, Kimball, Parr, Waddoups, Brown, Brown & Gee, Salt Lake City, for Amicus Curiae Bonneville International Corporation dba KSL-TV and Society of Professional Journalists.

Before BENCH, GREENWOOD, and WILKINS, JJ.


OPINION

WILKINS, Judge:

The Kearns-Tribune Corporation and KUTV (petitioners) seek an extraordinary writ from this court requiring Judge Kimberly K. Hornak to admit them to proceedings in the juvenile court regarding allegations pending against J.K., a minor. We deny the petition and decline to issue the requested writ.

BACKGROUND

J.K., now fourteen years old, is accused of intentionally killing her mother on February 20, 1996, when J.K...

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