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IN RE INVESTIGATION OF MARCH 1999 RIOTS

Docket No. 116731.

617 N.W.2d 310 (2000)

463 Mich. 378

In re INVESTIGATION OF MARCH 1999 RIOTS IN EAST LANSING. People of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Anthony David Pastor, Defendant, and Federated Publications, Inc., doing business as Lansing State Journal; WXYZ Channel 7; WZZM-TV; WMMT-TV3; WILX-TV; WLNS-TV; State News, Inc.; The Detroit Free Press, Inc.; WJBK-TV; WKBD-TV, and WJRTTV, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

September 26, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart J. Dunnings III, Ingham County Prosecutor, and Samuel R. Smith, Circuit Court Unit Chief, Lansing, MI, for the people.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. (by Charles E. Barbieri), Lansing, for the petitioner/appellee/cross-appellant.

Law Offices of Daw Phillips-Hertz (by Dawn Phillips-Hertz, Lisa Rycus Mikalonis, and Mireille L. Phillips), Troy, amici curiae for the Michigan Press Association.

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

The district court approved the issuance of investigative subpoenas to compel various media outlets to produce videotapes and photographs. The circuit court quashed the subpoenas and the Court of Appeals affirmed. We affirm the judgments of the circuit court and the Court of Appeals because the pertinent statutory language clearly provides that subpoenas may not be issued to the media in the circumstances of this case.

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