Baltimore Sun Co. v. Colbert

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The primary questions presented are (1) whether the press and the public are entitled to prior notice of, and an opportunity to oppose, an oral motion to close a courtroom during a pretrial proceeding in a criminal case and (2) whether the court’s hearing on the closure motion, and its sealing of a related written motion, satisfied the requirements of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article 40 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights. 1

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Tyrone Michael Colbert was charged in the Circuit Court for Howard County with first degree murder,…