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IN RE ESSEX SEARCH WARRANTS

No. 11-228.

60 A.3d 707 (2012)

2012 VT 92

In re ESSEX SEARCH WARRANTS.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

November 9, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Sorrell , Attorney General, and John Treadwell , Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, for Appellant State of Vermont.

Dan Barrett , Montpelier, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Vermont.

Adam Silverman and Sam Hemingway of The Burlington Free Press, Pro Ses, Burlington, Appellees.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.

BURGESS, J.

¶ 1. The State appeals from the Chittenden Criminal Division's denial of its motion to seal search warrants and related materials generated during an ongoing investigation into a missing Essex couple. The court determined that the State failed to show with specificity, as required under In re Sealed Documents, that disclosure would cause "substantial harm to public or private interests." 172 Vt. 152, 153, 772 A.2d 518

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