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EX PARTE GREENVILLE NEWS.

No. 24586.

326 S.C. 1 (1997)

482 S.E.2d 556

Ex parte The GREENVILLE NEWS and The Anderson Independent-Mail, Intervenors-Appellants. In re William H. BELL, Jr., Applicant, v. Parker EVATT, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided March 3, 1997.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl F. Muller, Wallace K. Lightsey, and John C. Moylan, III, Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, P.A., Greenville, for appellant The Greenville News.

Jay Bender of Baker, Barwick, Ravenel & Bender, Columbia, for appellant The Anderson Independent—Mail.

Howard W. Paschal, Jr., Greenville; and Mark Olive, Tallahassee, FL, for applicant.

Attorney General Charles Molony Condon, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, and Assistant Attorney General Robert F. Daley, Jr., for respondent.

Assistant Attorney General Christie Newman Barrett, for amicus curiae State of South Carolina.

MOORE, Justice:

Appellants (Newspapers) are intervenors in William Bell's post-conviction relief (PCR) action. They appeal an order refusing them access to a sealed portion of the PCR record. We reverse.

FACTS

William Bell was sentenced to death for the 1988 murder of an Anderson County school principal. His conviction and death sentence were affirmed on appeal to this Court in 1991. State v. Bell, 305 S.C. 11

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