STATE v. MART

No. 96 CA 1584.

697 So.2d 1055 (1997)

STATE of Louisiana v. Donald Nell MART.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howatt Peters, Jason Lyons, Houma, for State.

Jerald Block, Thibodaux, for Douglas and Linda Greenburg.

Jack Weiss, Mark Holton, New Orleans, Joseph Waltz, Sr., Houma, for Appellants HTV, Martin Folse, Lonnie Thibodaux.

J. David Forsyth, New Orleans, for Appellant Houma Courier Newspaper Corp.

William F. Dodd, Houma, for Sheriff Jerry Larpenter.

Alexander Crighton, Houma, Frederick Bott, New Orleans, for Terrebonne Parish School Board.

Joseph L. Waitz, Jr., Houma, for Casey Cedatol.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and FOIL and FOGG, JJ.


FOIL, Judge.

This appeal challenges a trial court's ruling denying a newspaper and television station's request for access to a videotape depicting a beating on a public school bus following the termination of a criminal prosecution arising from the incident. Various procedural rulings of the trial court are also contested in this appeal, as well as the court's order enjoining the television station from copying and distributing a copy of the videotaped beating it...

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