Arkansas Television Co. v. Tedder
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
Steele Hays, Justice.
Petitioners, Arkansas Television Company and Philip Barry Beasley, seek a writ of mandamus from this court to direct the respondent, Cecil A. Tedder, Circuit Judge of Lonoke County, to refrain from excluding members of the public and the news media from pretrial suppression hearings held in his court. Although the trial in which the issue arose has ended in a conviction, rendering the question moot, the problem tends to recur but evades review, hence, we will address it here. See Shiras v. Britt, 267 Ark. 97, 589 S.W.2d 18 (1979); Commercial Printing Co. v. Lee, 262 Ark.…
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