Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only in terms of a right to attend criminal trials. But spokesmen for the press jubilantly interpreted it to reach far beyond trials. James Goodale, a lawyer active in First Amendment cases, predicts that reporters will be helped in getting a look at "prisons, small-town meetings, the police blotter" and other places, proceedings and records that have often been closed to the press...