News-Press Publishing Co. v. Hayes

News-Press Publishing Company has filed a petition for writ of certiorari from an order by respondent Judge Hugh D. Hayes restricting extrajudicial statements concerning the pending case of State v. Benson, Cir.Ct. No. 85-0778-CF-A-HDH. The order provides:

1. That all parties, counsel, witnesses and prospective witnesses shall not make or participate in making any extrajudicial statement, written or oral, concerning this case, other than a quotation from or reference to, without comment, the public records of the Court in this case. This Order specifically prohibits any statement which a…