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UNITED STATES v. CIVELLA

No. 80-00023-01/03-CR-W-5.

493 F.Supp. 786 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Nicholas CIVELLA, Peter Tamburello, John Tortora, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D.

May 14, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. B. Helfrey, Sp. U. S. Atty., Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

Oscar B. Goodman, Las Vegas, Nev., Byron Neal Fox, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant Civella.

Robert Beaird, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant Tamburello.

Richard Knight, Nation & Curley, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant Tortora.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SCOTT O. WRIGHT, District Judge.

This case comes before the Court on defendants' motions to close pre-trial hearings to the news media and to seal pre-trial motions filed in this case. In support of these extraordinary motions, the defendants allege that they have been subjected to "unprecedented publicity;" that further publicity will impair their ability to obtain a fair trial; that several of the pre-trial motions filed on their behalf...

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