In Re Closure of Jury Voir Dire

204 Mich. App. 592 (1994)

516 N.W.2d 514

In re CLOSURE OF JURY VOIR DIRE (PEOPLE v. LAWRENCE)

Docket No. 156557.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Submitted January 4, 1994, at Grand Rapids.

Decided April 18, 1994, at 9:40 A.M.

Miller, Johnson, Snell & Cummiskey (by James S. Brady and Stephen R. Ryan), for Booth Newspapers.

Before: SAWYER, P.J., and NEFF and M.J. TALBOT,[*] JJ.

NEFF, J.

Intervenor Booth Newspapers, doing business as The Grand Rapids Press, appeals by leave granted from a circuit court order that barred the public and the press from attending jury voir dire in the underlying criminal case. We…