Case ID: fla-supp_49/html/0208-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARVIN U. MOUNTS, Jr., Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. ALFORD.
    No. 73-159 CF.
    Circuit Court, Palm Beach County, Criminal Division.
    October 19, 1979.
    David Bludworth, State Attorney, for the state.
    Leonard H. Rubin, Miami, for the defendant.
    Florence Beth Snyder, West Palm Beach, for Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. and Miami Herald Publishing Co.
   MARVIN U. MOUNTS, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This cause came on to be heard on intervenors’, Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. and the Miami Herald Publishing Company, request for a hearing on the state’s motion to exclude the public from discovery depositions.

The court, having considered the intervenors’ memorandum of law and arguments of counsel, and being otherwise advised in the premises, hereby orders and adjudges that the state’s motion is denied.

Discovery depositions taken pursuant to subpoenas issued by the state shall be open. Florida v. Bundy, 48 Fla. Supp. 204, 4 Med. L. Rptr. 2629 (1979). The parties may apply to the court for closure orders with respect to specific depositions, where legally sufficient cause can be proven by the moving party. Such motions shall be filed sufficiently in advance of the scheduled deposition so as to permit a hearing thereon. Miami Herald Publishing company v. Florida, 363 So.2d 603 (1978).