Federal judge closes hearings to public in trial of Blackwater security guards charged with manslaughter in Iraq
October 15, 2009 by donal brown
Filed under 1st Amendment News, FAC's Mobile Website, Freedom of Speech / Press, News & Opinion
A U.S. district judge closed the Blackwater manslaughter pretrial hearings to the public, he said, to enable a fair trial by shielding witnesses and potential jurors from a flurry of media reports. -DB
The Washington Post
October 15, 2009
By Del Quentin Wilber
A federal judge blocked the public Wednesday from attending a critical set of pretrial hearings in [...]
