Johnson Newspaper Corp. v. Parker

Judgment unanimously reversed, without costs, and petition granted, in accordance with the following memorandum: Petitioner, Johnson Newspaper Corporation, commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking to have Special Term vacate the order of Justice Court of the Village of Brownville which excluded the press and public from a criminal preliminary hearing and seeking an unredacted transcript of the hearing. On June 30,1983 Martin and Patricia Roth were arrested and charged with second degree manslaughter in the starvation death of their five-year-old daughter, Adrienne. Defendants’ arrest…