Brachtenbach, C.J. The issue is whether a superior court judge was justified in closing a pretrial hearing involving a motion to dismiss. A corollary question is presented by the judge's sealing of the record of that proceeding and his continued refusal to open the record to the public. This action arose out of the case of State v. Marler, a murder trial conducted in the King County courtroom of Judge Richard Ishi…
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