Case Name: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. John S. FREUND, John Trent, Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company, Miami Herald Publishing Company, and the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-07-31
Citations: 473 So. 2d 274
Docket Number: No. 85-687
Parties: STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. John S. FREUND, John Trent, Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company, Miami Herald Publishing Company, and the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel, Respondents.
Judges: HERSEY, C.J., and HURLEY, J., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 473
Pages: 274–275

Head Matter:
STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. John S. FREUND, John Trent, Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company, Miami Herald Publishing Company, and the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel, Respondents.
No. 85-687.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
July 31, 1985.
Pablo Perhaes, Asst. State Atty., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
L. Martin Reeder, Jr., D. Culver Smith, III, and Thomas R. Julin of Steel Hector Davis Burns & Middleton, Palm Beach, for respondents — Palm Beach Newspapers and Scripps-Howard Broadcasting.
Janice Burton Sharpstein and Laura Bes-vinick of Sharpstein & Sharpstein, P.A., Coconut Grove, and Richard J. Ovelmen, Gen. Counsel, Miami for respondent — Miami Herald.
Ray Ferrero, Jr. of Ferrero, Middle-brooks & Strickland, Fort Lauderdale, for respondents — Fort Lauderdale News and Sun Sentinel.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The trial court permitted media attendance at pretrial depositions in a criminal proceeding pursuant to our sister court's holding in Short v. Gaylord Broadcasting Co., 462 So.2d 591 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981). Since then this court announced its en banc decision in Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. v. Burk, 471 So.2d 571 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), which takes the opposite view from Short and which must govern the case at bar. Accordingly, we grant the writ and quash the trial court's order on the authority of our en banc decision in Burk.
WRIT ISSUED.
HERSEY, C.J., and HURLEY, J., concur.
LETTS, J., concurs specially with opinion.