Opinion
No. 89-3069.
December 20, 1989.
Petition for review to the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County.
L. Martin Reeder, Jr. of Steel, Hector, Davis, Burns Middleton, West Palm Beach, for petitioners.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen. and Louis F. Hubener, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.
Gordon C. Brydger of Gordon C. Brydger, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Christine Gomula.
John Gordon Colvin, Boca Raton, pro se.
Peggy Rowe-Linn of Peggy Rowe-Linn, P.A., West Palm Beach, for J.C., a child.
Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Margaret Good, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach.
Nancy P. Maxwell and Roger M. Pomerance of Metzger, Sonneborn Rutter, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Psychiatric Institute of Delray, Inc., d/b/a Fair Oaks Hosp. at Boca/Delray.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the order excluding the public and media is quashed. The trial court sua sponte closed the proceedings without complying with the requirements of an evidentiary hearing under Barron v. Florida Freedom Newspapers, 531 So.2d 113 (Fla. 1988), which was error. We remand for a hearing consistent with Barron.
HERSEY, C.J., and LETTS and WARNER, JJ., concur.