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♢ Consistent with long standing law and our recent decision in City of Federal Way v.
YAKIMA HERALD TRIAL
This case raises several issues, including (1) whether documents provided by an indigent defendant's counsel to a superior court judge to obtain funding for expert services, attorney fees, and other defense costs and related documents are judicial documents governed by the court rules for disclosure or by the Public Records Act (PRA), chapter 42.56 RCW, applicable to nonjudicial agencies (2) whether a trial court has authority to hear a motion to unseal previously sealed court records related to funding the defense of an indigent criminal defendant while the criminal conviction is on appeal or must seek approval from the appellate court pursuant to RAP 7.2 and (3) whether a motion for limited intervention by a newspaper in a criminal case for the limited purpose of revisiting orders sealing financial documents for funding for an indigent criminal defendant's defense is proper. Alexander, Justice Tom Chambers, Justice Susan Owens, Justice Mary E. Wilk (of Washington Appellate Project), for respondent intervenor. Harper (of Menke Jackson Beyer Ehlis & Harper LLP), for respondent county. Hagarty, Prosecuting Attorney, and Paul E. Michele Lynn Earl-Hubbard, Greg Overstreet, and Christopher Roslaniec (of Allied Law Group) and David M. WIGGINS, J., did not participate in the disposition of this case. YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLICĪrgued March 9, 2010.