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PEOPLE v. KOPP

195 Misc.2d 475 (2003)

756 N.Y.S.2d 830

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Plaintiff, v. JAMES C. KOPP, Defendant; BUFFALO NEWS et al., Intervenors. BUFFALO NEWS et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF NEW YORK et al., Defendants.

County Court, Erie County.

February 6, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stenger & Finnerty, Buffalo (Joseph M. Finnerty of counsel), for Buffalo News.

Nixon Peabody LLP, Buffalo (Mark A. Molloy of counsel), for WGRZ-TV and others.

Hodgson Russ, Buffalo (Paul I. Perlman of counsel), for LIN Television Corporation.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Buffalo (Barbra A. Kavanaugh of counsel), for State of New York.

Michael A. Battle, United States Attorney, Buffalo (Kathleen Mehltretter of counsel), for United States of America.

Frank J. Clark, District Attorney, Buffalo (Joseph J. Marusak of counsel), for People of the State of New York, plaintiff.

Bruce A. Barket, Garden City, and John V. Elmore, Buffalo, for James C. Kopp, defendant.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MICHAEL L. D'AMICO, J.

The defendant, James Kopp, is charged under Indictment No. 98-2555-S01 with two counts of murder in the second degree. It is alleged that the defendant, on October 23, 1998, caused the death of Dr. Barnett Slepian by shooting him.

There has been considerable interest by the media in this case and numerous applications for audio-visual coverage have been made to this court. There is no mechanism under current...

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