In Re the Baltimore Sun Company v. The Honorable Clarence E. Goetz, United States Magistrate

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• holding that search warrant affidavits are judicial records to which the public has a common law qualified right of access
• concluding that “the common sense reason why proceedings for search warrants are not open to the public” applies when considering disclosure of search warrant affidavits
• holding that because proceedings for the issuance of search warrants are not open to the public, there is no first amendment right of access to search warrant affidavits
• observing that the Supreme Court has twice “recognized that proceedings for the issuance of search warrants are not open”
• holding that “affidavits for search warrants are judicial records”
• concluding that pre-indictment search warrant materials are judicial records

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