Bloomberg Law Brief: Court Allows Withholding Mug Shots (Audio)

(Bloomberg) -- Fred Tecce, a partner at Panitch Schwarze, and Brian Wassom, a partner at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, discuss a federal appeals court decision, which decided that the U.S. Government is allowed to withhold mug shots of federal criminal defendants from the media. The 9-7 decision by the 6th U.S. Court of appeals overrules a 1996 decision by the same court, and was a defeat for the Detroit Free Press, which challenged U.S. Marshals' refusal to share mug shots for four Michigan police officers who were charged with bribery and drug conspiracy. They speak with Bloomberg Law hosts June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg Law."