ASSOCIATED PRESS v. SECOND JUDICIAL DIST.

Docket No. 50482.

529 P.3d 1259 (2023)

In re: Petition for Writ of Mandamus or Writ of Prohibition. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; Radio Television Digital News Association; Sinclair Media of Boise, LLC/KBOI-TV (Boise); The McClatchy Company, LLC; States Newsroom dba Idaho Capital Sun; The Seattle Times; TEGNA Inc./KREM (Spokane); KTVB (Boise) and King (Seattle); EastIdahoNews.com; The Lewiston Tribune; Washington State Association of Broadcasters; Adams Publishing Group dba Post Register; Idaho Press Club; Idaho Education News; KXLY-TV/4 News Now and KAPP/KVEW-TV—Morgan Murphy Media KXLY-TV/4 News Now; Scripps Media, Inc., dba KIVI-TV, a Delaware Corporation; Boise State Public Radio; The Times-News; The Spokesman-Review/Cowles Company; Coeur D Alene Press; The New York Times Company; Day365 dba BoiseDev; LawNewz, Inc.; Scripps Media, Inc., a Delaware Corporation; ABC, Inc.; WP Company LLC, dba The Washington Post; Society of Professional Journalists, Petitioners, v. SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT of the State of Idaho, County of Latah; Honorable Megan E. Marshall, Magistrate Judge, Respondents, and Bryan C. Kohberger and State of Idaho, Latah County Prosecutor, Intervenor-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Idaho, Boise, March 2023 Term.

Opinion Filed: April 24, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stoel Rives, LLP, Boise, for Petitioners.

Ferguson Durham, PLLC, Boise, for Respondents.

Kootenai County Public Defenders Office, Coeur d'Alene, for Intervenor Bryan C. Kohberger.

Latah County Prosecutor, Moscow, for Intervenor Latah County Prosecuting Attorney.


A coalition of media companies has petitioned this Court, invoking its original jurisdiction to seek a writ of mandamus or a writ of prohibition to vacate a nondissemination order issued by the magistrate court in the pending criminal action of State of Idaho v. Bryan C. Kohberger. This Court expedited the case and ordered...

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