Court Denies Access To Juror Responses In GREAT WHITE Nightclub Fire Case

June 13, 2009

TheDay.com reports: Rhode Island's highest court on Friday blocked the release of thousands of pages of jury questionnaires completed in the case of a nightclub owner charged after a 2003 fire at his club during a GREAT WHITE concert that killed 100 people.

The state Supreme Court said the 421 jury questionnaires were moot because the case against Michael Derderian, co-owner of The Station nightclub in West Warwick, ended without a trial and a jury was never seated.

Derderian pleaded no contest in September 2006 to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter while jury selection was under way. His brother Jeffrey, who also owned the club and was to have been tried later, entered the same plea.

Read the entire report from TheDay.com.

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