Ex Parte AB

950 So.2d 1142 (2006)

Ex parte A.B.

(In re C.D., as executrix of the estate of E.F.

v.

A.B. et al.).

1050514.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 21, 2006.

Edward Still, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Julia T. Cochrun of Pate & Cochrun, LLP, Birmingham, for respondent.

HARWOOD, Justice.[1]

This mandamus proceeding involves the proper balancing between the privacy interest of the defendant in the underlying civil action, which has become implicated as hereinafter explained, and the interest of the plaintiff in conducting an informed voir dire of the jury venire. In order to honor, at this level, the privacy…