Questão jurídica principal
Whether the press should be excluded from the public criminal appeal hearing to protect the accused's private life.
Decisão extraída
The press exclusion was refused; the interests of publicity and media reporting prevailed over the accused's privacy concerns.
Fundamentação extraída
Public hearings serve the public's information interest, and the press has a special role in conveying court proceedings. Under the applicable cantonal rule and Art. 6(1) ECHR, exclusion for privacy protection is possible, but only after balancing all circumstances. Here the accused had no exceptional privacy interest, the journalist was expected to report with restraint, and the public interest was especially strong because the accused allegedly acted as a police officer, i.e. as an agent of state power.