Petition of Post-Newsweek Station, Florida, Inc. for Change in Code of Judicial Conduct, POST-NEWSWEEK
| Citation | 327 So.2d 1 |
| Decision Date | 28 January 1976 |
| Docket Number | POST-NEWSWEEK,No. 46835,46835 |
| Parties | Petition ofSTATIONS, FLORIDA, INC. FOR CHANGE IN CODE OF JUDICIAL CONDUCT. |
| Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Post-Newsweek Stations, Florida, Inc. filed a petition for modification of Canon 3A(7) of the Code of Judicial Conduct of the State of Florida to the extent of allowing the televising of judicial proceedings and for the adoption of a rule in relation thereto proposed by the petitioner. In our Order, May 21, 1975, this Court denied that portion of the petition which seeks approval of the substitute of Canon 3A(7) proposed by the petitioner but granted the portion which seeks a reexamination of the Canon for the purpose of making the Court's own revision, if such should be deemed appropriate.
The petition for change is opposed by (1) The Florida Bar, (2) the Conference of Circuit Judges, (3) the Trial Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar, (4) Chairman of the Judicial Qualifications Commission expressing a personal view, and (5) others. Pursuant to the entry of our Order on May 21, 1975, the Court received various materials both pro and con in relation to the subject and observed a television video tape film prepared under the auspices of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington. Upon examination of all the foregoing, the Court determined that an on-site experimental prgogram conducted under the auspices of this Court whereby one televised courtroom trial of a criminal case and one such trial of a civil case to be heard by the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida would be of assistance to this Court in the final...
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