Legal Opinion
United States v. Cianfrani
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 16, 1978No. Nos. 77-2445, 77-2462PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SEITZ, Chief Judge.
Several newsgathering organizations and two individual reporters (“intervenors”) appeal an order of the district court excluding the public from a pretrial suppression hearing and sealing the record of that hearing.1
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FACTUAL BACKGROUND.
On September 23, 1977, a federal grand jury indicted Henry J. Cianfrani (“defendant”) for crimes arising out of his alleged misuse of public office. At the time of the *842indictment, defendant was a powerful and prominent politician in Philadelphia. A former member of the state house of representatives, he had served for the…
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3Cited by136 opinions
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