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AZBILL v. FISHER

No. 5633.

442 P.2d 916 (1968)

Sylvester Jackson AZBILL, Petitioner, v. Herman E. FISHER, Justice of the Peace, Las Vegas Township, County of Clark, Respondent, Gerald Ralya, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 26, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wiener, Goldwater & Galatz, Las Vegas, for appellant.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., Carson City, George E. Franklin, Jr., Dist. Atty., and Raymond D. Jeffers, Deputy Dist. Atty., Las Vegas, for respondent.

Ross, Snyder, Goodman & Bryan, Las Vegas, for intervenor.

OPINION

ZENOFF, Justice.

Defendant Azbill was charged with murder and scheduled to appear for a preliminary examination in justice court. At the hearing he invoked the exclusionary rule, NRS 171.204, but the magistrate refused to exclude a representative of the press.1 That judicial officer expressed his opinion that the doctrine of "the people have a right to know" was paramount to the statute and that instead of complying with...

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