GEORGIA TELEVISION COMPANY v. State

Gregory, Justice.

This is an appeal from a ruling by the trial court barring television cameras from the courtroom during pretrial hearings in the prosecution of George Elder Dungee. We affirm.

Dungee was one of the defendants convicted and sentenced to death in 1974 for the murder of six members of the Alday family in Donalsonville, Georgia. His conviction was vacated in 1985 by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals because extensive pretrial publicity in that case had prejudiced defendant’s right to receive a fair trial before an impartial jury. Isaacs v. Kemp, 778 F2d 1482 (11th Cir.) (1986).