In re WMUR Channel 9

By petition for writ of certiorari, the petitioners, WMUR Channel 9, the Boston Globe and the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, request that the court reverse a Superior Court (Smith, J.) order prohibiting them from photographing, recording or broadcasting proceedings in State of New Hampshire v. Robert Tulloch. When the *646defendant in that case decided to plead guilty, we granted the petitioners’ emergency request for media access to the defendant’s change of plea hearing, as that proceeding was not a jury trial but rather a hearing on a guilty plea to an offense that carries a…