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Media to Be Allowed to View Trial Exhibits (10/16/2024)
“The Court, having had the News Media Coalition's Motion to Inspect Public Trial Exhibits, filed September 30, 2024, under advisement, now issues its Order addressing the media's complaints as follows: The hearing conducted in Carroll Circuit Court on July 30-August 1, 2024, was open to the public and the media and, in fact, attended by members of the media, as well as the public. At said hearing, well over 1,000 pages of exhibits, documents, and photographs were submitted by the parties in support of their respective positions. At the conclusion of the hearing on August 1, 2024, the Court took the matter under advisement. The Court indicated it would take approximately thirty (30) days to issue its rulings on the multiple motions which were heard. The media immediately, on August 2, 2024, demanded access to the exhibits. This was an unreasonable request as the Court had just taken the matter under advisement the previous day and the Court needed absolute access to the exhibits to review and make a ruling.
The Court would note that this murder case is one of over 300 pending cases on this Court's docket, with approximately thirty (30) of those cases being murder cases. The Court and the Court Reporter have worked into the evenings and on the weekends to comply with the demands made by the media.
Of the well over 1,000 pages of exhibits, documents, and photographs (several of the photographs were admitted into evidence as "confidential" by agreement of the parties due to the extremely graphic nature of the photographs) the Court has identified dozens of exhibits which are accessible to the media or the public as they contain employment personnel records, medical records, mental health records, financial bank records, records containing social security numbers and dates of birth, autopsy reports, work-product of counsel, depositions containing confidential exhibits, and reports which were marked by the creator of the report as confidential.
The Court has obtained the services of a Senior Judge to supervise the review of those exhibits which are accessible to the media. The Senior Judge, Judge Marianne Vorhees, has indicated she will make the exhibits available to the media on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at 10:00 am at a location in the Allen County Courthouse, located in Fort Wayne Indiana.
The media is also demanding access to the exhibits which will be introduced at the trial, commencing October 18, 2024-November 15, 2024. At the conclusion of each trial day, the Court will allow the media access to those exhibits for fifteen (15) minutes.”
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“The Court, having had the News Media Coalition's Motion to Inspect Public Trial Exhibits, filed September 30, 2024, under advisement, now issues its Order addressing the media's complaints as follows: The hearing conducted in Carroll Circuit Court on July 30-August 1, 2024, was open to the public and the media and, in fact, attended by members of the media, as well as the public. At said hearing, well over 1,000 pages of exhibits, documents, and photographs were submitted by the parties in support of their respective positions. At the conclusion of the hearing on August 1, 2024, the Court took the matter under advisement. The Court indicated it would take approximately thirty (30) days to issue its rulings on the multiple motions which were heard. The media immediately, on August 2, 2024, demanded access to the exhibits. This was an unreasonable request as the Court had just taken the matter under advisement the previous day and the Court needed absolute access to the exhibits to review and make a ruling.
The Court would note that this murder case is one of over 300 pending cases on this Court's docket, with approximately thirty (30) of those cases being murder cases. The Court and the Court Reporter have worked into the evenings and on the weekends to comply with the demands made by the media.
Of the well over 1,000 pages of exhibits, documents, and photographs (several of the photographs were admitted into evidence as "confidential" by agreement of the parties due to the extremely graphic nature of the photographs) the Court has identified dozens of exhibits which are accessible to the media or the public as they contain employment personnel records, medical records, mental health records, financial bank records, records containing social security numbers and dates of birth, autopsy reports, work-product of counsel, depositions containing confidential exhibits, and reports which were marked by the creator of the report as confidential.
The Court has obtained the services of a Senior Judge to supervise the review of those exhibits which are accessible to the media. The Senior Judge, Judge Marianne Vorhees, has indicated she will make the exhibits available to the media on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at 10:00 am at a location in the Allen County Courthouse, located in Fort Wayne Indiana.
The media is also demanding access to the exhibits which will be introduced at the trial, commencing October 18, 2024-November 15, 2024. At the conclusion of each trial day, the Court will allow the media access to those exhibits for fifteen (15) minutes.”
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