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MATTER OF DECKER

No. 24272.

471 S.E.2d 462 (1995)

In the Matter of Twila DECKER, Appellant. In re the STATE, Respondent, v. Susan SMITH, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Refiled July 11, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Bender and Charles E. Baker of Baker, Barwick, Ravenel and Bender, Columbia, for appellant.

Atty. Gen. Charles Molony Condon, Deputy Atty. Gen. John W. McIntosh, Asst. Deputy Atty. Gen. Salley W. Elliott and Asst. Atty. Gen. G. Robert Deloach, III, Columbia, and Sol. Thomas E. Pope, Rock Hill, for respondent, State of South Carolina.

David I. Bruck and Judy Clarke, Columbia, for respondent, Susan Smith.

Cheryl Perkins, Columbia and Jane E. Kirtley and Daniel E. Katz, Arlington, VA, for amici curiae, Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press and the South Carolina Press Ass'n.

PER CURIAM:

Twila Decker, a reporter for The State newspaper, appeals a circuit court order holding her in civil contempt. We affirm.

FACTS

This case involves a newspaper article written by Decker about Susan Smith, who is charged with the murder of her two children. By order of the circuit court on March 23, 1995, Smith was ordered to submit to a psychiatric evaluation by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health (DMH). Due to...

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