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COM. v. UPSHUR

924 A.2d 642 (2007)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Jamie Lynn UPSHUR, Appeal of WPXI, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Resubmitted April 13, 2007.

Decided June 20, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter P. DeForest, III, DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis & Kaplan, Altoona, for WPXI, Inc., appellant.

Kevin Francis McCarthy, Pittsburgh, for the Com. of PA, appellee.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, BALDWIN and FITZGERALD, JJ.

OPINION ANNOUNCING THE JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed in this case to determine whether an audiotape played at a preliminary hearing is a public judicial record or document to which the media has a presumptive right of access.

In February 2004, Jamie Lynn Upshur was charged by criminal complaint filed in the Pittsburgh Magistrates Court with multiple offenses, including two counts of criminal homicide, apparently...

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