Poteet v. Roswell Daily Record, Inc.

(specially concurring).

I specially concur.

Harney, 331 U.S. 367, 394, 67 S.Ct. 1249, 1263, 91 L.Ed. 1546 (1947), said:

This is one of those cases in which the reasons we give for our decision are more important to the development of the law than the decision itself.

With this corollary in mind, the Supreme Court of New Mexico allowing publication of this opinion, I shall state the reasons why the present status of the doctrine of the right to privacy versus freedom of the press should be modified wherein the child victim of a crime is exposed by the press to public disclosure.

The Court of…