Pat Reavy interned with KSL in 1989 and has been a full-time journalist for either KSL or Deseret News since 1991. For the past 25 years, he has worked primarily the cops and courts beat.
PROVO — Attorneys for multiple media organizations say the Tyler Robinson defense team in his capital murder case is not allowing them to see "private" motions and they want to talk about it in court.On Thursday, the attorneys for the media — who represent KSL, Deseret News , the Salt Lake Tribune, the New York Times Company, CNN, Fox News Media and many more — submitted several filings in 4th District Court to Judge Tony Graf.
The filings are the latest in the battle over Robinson's repeated filing of motions classified as "private" and not available to the public.In their latest response, attorneys for the media remind Graf that "counsel for the news media are officers of the court.""If the defense provides them with their purportedly secret closure papers on the condition they be maintained on an 'attorneys' eyes only' basis, there is no reason to believe counsel would violate that restriction. But the defense has refused to provide their sealed submissions, even with that procedural safeguard, to counsel for the news media, meaning the court will not receive a full and adequate briefing on the weighty constitutional issues of closure. That position is unjustified and contrary to the normal course of this court's presumptively public proceedings. This court should flatly reject it," the news media argues.Attorneys for the media are asking the judge to order that whenever a request is made to file a motion as "private," then "the news media's counsel should be allowed to see the motion papers supporting that extraordinary request and meaningfully respond on the merits. … Holding otherwise, as the defense has reflexively insisted, is contrary to the fundamental principles of our adversarial system of justice and the constitutional guarantee, which this court has repeatedly recognized, that these proceedings should be conducted in the light of day," according to their request."Some things are not up for debate. One is that the news media have a right to be heard in a meaningful manner," the media attorneys continued while requesting a hearing on the matter. "The latest closure motion filed by the defense seeks to bar all video, audio, and cameras from the courtroom for a case of substantial public interest, contrary to the presumption in the Utah rules allowing such coverage. And it apparently contains more than 200 pages of purported 'evidence' supporting that request. The defense m
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