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October 27, 2006

Closed-door hearing set on Station fire jury testimony

PROVIDENCE -- Superior Court Presiding Justice Joseph F. Rodgers Jr. has scheduled a closed-door hearing for 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 13 on the state attorney general's petition to release grand jury testimony in The Station nightclub fire case.

Before then, the Attorney General's Office is required to send notices to the people who were indicted in the case, people who were targeted for prosecution but not indicted, the Rhode Island Bar Association, the Rhode Island Criminal Defense Association and lawyers involved in civil litigation.

Anyone who wants to file a memo on the petition must file it with the judge by 4 p.m. Dec. 1.

A Roger Williams University law professor who is defending the secrecy of grand juries has until Dec. 11 to respond to anything filed.

Rodgers held an open hearing this morning on Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch's petition for the release. The request came after the trial for three defendants was averted by their decisions to enter pleas.

-- Journal staff writer Paul Edward Parker

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