Knoxville News Sentinel v. Huskey

OPINION

JERRY L. SMITH, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal taken pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 9, the Appellant, Thomas Dee Huskey, asks this Court to reverse the decision of the Knox County Criminal Court allowing Intervenor-Appellee, the Knoxville News-Sentinel, (hereinafter KNS), to inspect previously sealed summary cover sheets of attorney fee and expense claims which set forth the total fees and expenses paid to defense counsel out of public funds dedicated for use in representing indigent criminal defendants. The trial court also ordered unsealed those documents…