Thursday, May 28, 2009
Judge Orders Release Of Bid-Rigging Transcripts
At a hearing in Covington Tuesday, lawyers for the (Louisville) Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader requested transcripts of a May 13th. closed hearing involving road contractor Leonard Lawson be released, saying too many documents in the case had been sealed. U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves has ruled the hearing in front of U.S. Magistrate James B. Todd, which involved the conduct of attorneys in the case and whether certain tapes should be admitted as evidence, was properly closed in an effort to prevent the premature release of inadmissable evidence which could jeopardize jury selection. On Thursday, Reeves said he had reviewed the transcripts and decided they can be unsealed " without unnecessarily jeopardizing the defendent's right to a fair trial."
# posted by Homer Owens @ 6:45 PM 
