Court Opinion

ID: 9720519
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:33:48.728184+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:03:44.241865
License: Public Domain

WOLLMAN, Chief Justice
(concurring specially).
I agree with that portion of the majority opinion which holds that the public and the press have no right of access to criminal trials under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution or art. VI, § 7 of the South Dakota Constitution.
I would adopt the views expressed by Justice Powell in his concurring opinion in Gannett v. DePasquale, — U.S. —, 99 S.Ct. 2898, 61 L.Ed.2d 608, and hold that under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and art. VI, § 5 of the South Dakota Constitution, petitioner had the right of access to the proceedings here in question, subject to limitation only in accordance with the procedures set forth in the majority opinion.