State ex rel. Dispatch Printing Co. v. Louden

In March 2000, Jason Bell, a twenty-year-old resident of the city of Delaware, was allegedly kidnapped and murdered. It was reported that Bell had been bludgeoned, to death. On March 17, adult suspects T. William Ellis and Scott A. Spriggs appeared in Delaware Municipal Court on charges of kidnapping Bell. Early that morning, the Delaware police arrested Stacey E. DiGian, then fourteen years old, and charged her with a delinquency count of kidnapping Bell.

In the early afternoon, relator, the Dispatch Printing Company (“Dispatch”), which publishes the newspaper the Columbus Dispatch, learned…