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Gag ordercontestedin AustinAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A May 9 hearing has been set for a motion filed by the Austin Ameriean-Statesman contesting proposed gagorders in the capital murder case of George EdwardClark.Clark, 21, is charged in the stabbing death of Ann Tracy Drummond, who was at ducted from a shopping center parking lot, raped and slain last March 3.Clark’s appointed lawyer, Hubert Gill, has asked State District Judge Mace Thurman to conduct evidentiary pretrial hearings in chambers and, if the hearings are conducted in open court, to order publicity restricted to only the names of witnesses who testified. Gill also wants persons connected with the trial, including prosecutors and police, not to comment on it.Attorneys for the newspaper asked Wednesday that the Ameriean-Statesman be allowed to intervene to protect its First Amendment rights to report the pre-trial hearing and the trial itself
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Big Spring Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Thu, May 04, 1978
Page 10
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Jared T.
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