Gag Order in Beauty Queen Murder Case Goes to Ga. Supreme Court
A long-running fight over a media gag order in a South Georgia murder trial will go before the Georgia Supreme Court when it meets on Oct. 24 at the University of Georgia School of Law.
October 12, 2017 at 03:17 PM
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S. Derek Bauer (John Disney/ALM)
A long-running fight over a media gag order in a small town murder trial will go before the Georgia Supreme Court when it meets in Athens on Oct. 24 at the University of Georgia School of Law on historic North Campus.
The judge, the district attorney and the public defender in the one-stoplight farm town of Ocilla 200 miles south of Atlanta seek to block news coverage of the trial of a man accused of murdering beauty queen and high school history teacher Tara Grinstead 12 years ago.
But first they'll have to beat a team of experienced Atlanta First Amendment lawyers, led by S. Derek Bauer at Baker & Hostetler representing WXIA-TV. Media attorneys Tom Clyde and Lesli Gaither at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton have joined in as another party.
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