Legal Opinion
Group W Television, Inc. v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 1, 1993No. 300, September Term, 1993PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FISCHER, Judge.
In this case we are asked to decide whether members of the mass media are entitled to copy a videotape that had been introduced as an exhibit in a criminal trial. The videotape was admitted as evidence against Bernard E. Miller, who was standing trial in the Circuit Court for Howard County for the carjacking murder of Pamela Basu. Several news organizations filed motions to intervene, 1 as did Rodney Soloman, Miller’s co-defendant. The media sought to obtain copies of the videotape, but Miller, Soloman, and the State argued that such dissemination of the video would impinge on…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Riverside Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Estes v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Freedman v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by4 opinions
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