Commonwealth v. Crawford

DEL SOLE, President Judge:

¶ 1 This appeal lies from two provisions of an order entered September 27, 2000, in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County. The first denies the media Appellants’ petition to vacate or modify a previous order which prohibited all persons connected with the underlying criminal case in any capacity from making extrajudicial statements “which are likely or might possibly interfere with the rights of the Defendants or the Commonwealth to a fair and impartial trial,” and the second denies the media Appellants access to a Commonwealth brief filed after defense counsel…