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THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. v. COM.

Record Nos. 012682, 012683.

570 S.E.2d 809 (2002)

264 Va. 622

THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER COMPANY, d/b/a The Boston Globe, v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia. The Washington Post, et al., v. Commonwealth of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret E. Stone (Stone, Harrison & Turk, on briefs), Radford, for appellant.

Katherine P. Baldwin, Senior Assistant Attorney General (Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Amici Curiae: The Rutherford Institute and Virginias for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (John W. Whitehead; Steven H. Aden; Steven D. Rosenfield, on brief), Charlottesville, in support of appellant.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ, and LEMONS, JJ., and COMPTON, S.J.

Opinion by Justice DONALD W. LEMONS.

Twenty-one years after the rape and murder of Wanda McCoy, twenty years after the trial of Roger Keith Coleman for these offenses, and ten years after his execution, we consider whether the trial court erred in refusing petitions by several newspapers for access to DNA evidence for the purpose of re-testing the evidence.

I. Facts and Procedural History

In 1982, Roger...

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