State ex rel. Pulitzer Publishing Co. v. Lohmar

STEWART, Presiding Judge.

Patrick Trimble filed a notice of appeal after the trial court denied his motion to intervene and entered its judgment making permanent its preliminary writ in prohibition directing the respondent judge to refrain from proceeding with Trimble’s preliminary hearing en camera and ordering that the preliminary hearing be open to the public.

Trimble had been charged with the crime of capital murder. When his preliminary hearing commenced on December 6, 1979, counsel for Trimble moved that the proceedings be closed to the public and the press because of the adverse…