Nashville Parents Can Have Say in Case Over Shooter’s Writings, Judge Rules
Parents from about 100 families will be allowed to formally argue against the release of journals and writings left behind by the assailant who killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville in March, a judge said on Wednesday.
After journalists, a gun-rights organization and lawmakers sued to force the release of hundreds of pages of journals and writings left by the shooter, the parents of the three 9-year-olds killed and nearly all of their surviving classmates, as well as the school and adjoining church, had asked in a hearing on Monday to join the case and argue against their publication.
The judge, Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles of the Chancery Court in Davidson County, acknowledged that the parents “stand in a unique position stepping into the shoes of their minor children.” And because those children are the victims of a crime currently under investigation by the police, the judge found that the parents had a right to intervene on their behalf.
Source: The New York Times
