Morris Publishing Group, LLC, d/b/a etc. v. State of Florida and Michael D. Dunn

Criminal discovery and Florida public records laws are at issue in this case. Morris Publishing Group, LLC, Multimedia Holdings Corporation, and Gannett River States Publishing Corporation (collectively the “Media”), seek review of the trial court’s order, which concluded that the State Attorney’s Office, Fourth Judicial Circuit (SAO), did not act unlawfully in delaying or withholding recorded phone conversations of a criminal defendant, Michael Dunn, without first securing a deposit from the Media to cover the costs of reviewing the recordings to- redact information that is…