WALB-TV, INC. v. Gibson

Hines, Justice.

This is an appeal from a television station’s request for electronic media access to court proceedings. Karen Michelle Eckman and William Jack Lematty are charged with murdering two victims. The State is not seeking the death penalty against Eckman, but is against Lematty. The defendants are to be tried separately, Eckman first.1 WALB-TV filed a request to install audio and video recording equipment in the courtroom for both trials, with a videotape camera on a tripod and microphones at the witness stand and counsel tables, intending to record trial proceedings and then…