The Region - News from April 19, 1987

A Riverside County Superior Court judge has ordered a newspaper to delay publishing information from a hearing in a death-penalty case, and the paper says it will appeal. Judge J. William Mortland held that the Press-Enterprise of Riverside must wait until May 5 to publish information from a hearing on the admissibility of evidence in the case against Michael Donnell Niles and Noel Jackson, who are charged in the 1984 murder of Niles’ wife. Mel Opotowsky, managing editor-features for the paper, said U.S. Supreme Court rulings have established that “prior restraint . . . is plainly unconstitutional.”