State ex rel. Cole v. Francisco

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

This is a mandamus action brought by relators, who are professional journalists employed by the ABC television news magazine “20/20,” against Dr. Jerry T. Francisco, the Shelby County Medical Examiner, *106praying that he be required to make available to them “the complete pharmacological, toxicological and autopsy reports utilized by him in preparing his Report of Official Medical Examination” of the death of Elvis Presley who died in Shelby County, Tennessee, on August 16, 1977. The case was determined on the pleadings and the depositions and affidavits on file, pursuant…