Legal Opinion
In re J.D.C.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 3, 1991No. 91-345PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
J.D.C., who is fourteen years of age, has been charged as a juvenile in the shooting death of fifteen-year-old Jermaine Daniel, whose friendship with former Chief of Police Maurice T. Turner, Jr., had received considerable publicity in the media. J.D.C. has filed this expedited appeal from an order of a judge of the Family Division of the Superior Court denying in part his motion to exclude members of the media from attending the factfinding hearing1 and subsequent proceedings in his case.
J.D.C.’s motion was predicated primarily on the publication in The Wall Street…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Organization for a Better Austin v. KeefeSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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