Legal Opinion
WBZ-TV4 v. District Attorney for the Suffolk District
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 19, 1990PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
In these consolidated appeals, WBZ-TV4 (WBZ) challenges orders of two single justices of this court denying WBZ access to materials in the so-called Carol Stuart murder case. The materials in question involve: (a) the videotape of a lineup at which Charles Stuart identified William Bennett as the man who had shot Stuart and his wife, Carol Stuart; and (b) a tape-recorded statement of a witness in the investigation.
Carol Stuart was murdered, and her husband, Charles Stuart, wounded, as they were driving home from a childbirth class at a Boston hospital on October 23, 1989. Charles Stuart…
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