PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, LLC v. STATE

No. 4D15-4572.

183 So.3d 480 (2016)

PALM BEACH NEWSPAPERS, LLC, d/b/a The Palm Beach Post, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Jamal David Smith and Frederick Cobia, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 21, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Martin Reeder, Jr. and C. Bryce Albu of Reeder & Reeder, P.A., Jupiter, for petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Mark J. Hamel , Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for respondent State of Florida.

Carey Haughwout , Public Defender, and Paul Edward Petillo , Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for respondent Jamal David Smith.

Valerie Masters, West Palm Beach, for respondent Frederick Cobia.


Palm Beach Newspapers, LLC, d/b/a The Palm Beach Post, seeks certiorari review of an order prohibiting it from publishing transcripts of a jail inmate's recorded telephone conversations. We find that the Post's publication of the transcripts is protected by the First Amendment. We further conclude that the trial court failed to comply...

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