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Press wants Krugel transcripts unsealed

By Richard Binder

The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, filed a motion Tuesday challenging a federal judge's decision to seal court transcripts from a recent civil trial in Los Angeles involving the killing of 62-year-old Jewish activist Earl Krugel in prison.

The media motion came after U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson booted media and spectators from the courtroom last month, citing a protective order that covers the Bureau of Prisons practice of evaluating inmates for the potential to harm others and for gang affiliations.

In their filing, attorneys for the news organizations argued the media and the public's First Amendment rights have been violated because the judge has kept court records sealed.

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