California Court of Appeal

The First Amendment right of access to certain judicial proceedings does not extend to post-indictment grand jury transcripts at a Penal Code section 938.1 hearing, and a defendant seeking to seal such transcripts pending the completion of trial need only establish prejudice under the lesser "reasonable likelihood" standard of section 938.1.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2007
• Published 08/24/2007

Judges

• MARCHIANO, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles Robinson, Redwood City, Eric Liberman, Millbrae, and John Halley, Redwood City, for Petitioner., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias, Senior Assistant Attorney General for Real Party in Interest, Office of the Attorney General., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, James M. Chadwick, San Francisco, and Guylyn R. Cummins, San Diego, for Real Party in Interest, San Jose Mercury News, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen Wagstaffe, Redwood City, for Respondent.