State Ex Rel. Charleston Mail Ass'n v. Ranson

DAVIS, Justice:

In this original proceeding for a writ of prohibition, the relators, the Charleston Mail Association and the Daily Gazette Company, request that we vacate an order entered November 7, 1996, by the respondent judge, the Honorable Lyne Ranson, of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County. The order denied the relators’ motions to quash subpoenas duces tecum in which respondent Frank E. West requested photographs of a crime scene taken by the relators’ photographers. The relators request that we find they have a reportorial privilege that would preclude disclosure of the photographs to…