STATE EX REL. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, LLC v. Garvey

The issue in this case is whether the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, LLC, and Multimedia KSDK, Inc. Newsehannel 5 are entitled to a writ of prohibition preventing the Honorable John F. Garvey (respondent) from closing the proceedings in a juvenile case pursuant to section 211.171, RSMo Supp.2004. After an opinion by the Court of Appeals, Eastern District, this Court granted transfer. Mo. Const, art. V, sec. 10.

FACTS

Respondent is presiding over a juvenile case in which the juvenile is alleged to have committed acts that would be murder in the first degree if committed by an adult. The juvenile filed…