A court has turned down a request by 30 news organizations to lift the gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death.
The high court did not weigh in on whether the gag order, which prohibits attorneys, prosecutors, law enforcement agencies and others involved in the case from talking to the news media, violates the First Amendment rights of a free press. Instead, the unanimous Idaho Supreme Court justices said the news organizations should first take their request to the magistrate judge who issued the gag order.
Though those are "well-guarded rights," Moeller said, news organizations who wish to challenge gag orders should start at the lower courts and work their way up to the state's highest judicial bench, rather than approaching the Supreme Court first.and burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths in Moscow, Idaho. Prosecutors have yet to reveal if they intend to seek the death penalty.were found on Nov.
A private security officer sits in a vehicle on Jan. 3 in front of the house in Moscow, Idaho where four University of Idaho students were killed in November, 2022. "This is not a case where the attorneys seek to use the rules as a weapon against one another. It is a case where a young man is on trial for his life," Logsdon wrote. "There was nothing inappropriate about the Magistrate Court reminding the attorneys involved of their ethical obligations."
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