Legal Opinion
State v. Tallman
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided September 11, 1987No. 84-341 and 84-461PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
This case presents the Court with the vexatious and escalating problem of balancing a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to trial by an impartial jury against the public’s claimed First Amendment right of access to pretrial criminal proceedings. We write at length because of the importance of this issue and because we believe that the trial court failed to balance properly these competing concerns.
The defendant in this case, Delbert Tallman, was arraigned on homicide charges in May of 1984. At the arraignment, the defendant asked that the affidavit of probable cause, which accompanied the…
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