United States v. Brown

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

By appeals or, in the alternative, petitions for a writ of mandamus, various “News Media”, 1 challenge measures used by the court to protect juror anonymity in a much-publicized criminal trial. Those measures included certain orders implementing an anonymous jury order, and the district court’s refusal to grant the News Media’s motion for post-verdict access to juror information. Finding that a portion of the district court’s orders supplementing its anonymous jury order was an unconstitutional prior restraint, we reverse in part. We reject, however, the News…