
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, November 29, 1993                   TAG: 9311290055
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: DETROIT                                LENGTH: Short

NEWSPAPERS RESTRICTED OVER COVERAGE OF TRIAL

At least three newspaper distributors refused to sell Sunday's edition of The Detroit News and Free Press in Canada because of that country's ban on coverage of a murder trial.

In Buffalo, N.Y., the newspaper editor warned that copies of Sunday's Buffalo News would likely be confiscated at the Canadian border because of the story on Karla Homolka's trial.

Ontario Justice Francis Kovacs has blocked the public and foreign media from his courtroom in St. Catherines, Ontario, under a law that allows judges to order a virtual blackout on trial coverage in an attempt to ensure a fair trial. He has restricted the facts that Canadian journalists are allowed to report on the trial.

Homolka, 23, was sentenced last summer to 12 years in prison on two counts of manslaughter for her role in deaths of two teen-age girls. Her husband awaits trial on first-degree murder charges in the slayings and on other charges, including the rapes of 17 other women.

- Associated Press

by CNB