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A very good reason, but courts hate sealing documents because the original -- >> was there a good reason here do you think? >> pardon? >> do you think there was a good reason to have this sealed for so long? >> maybe originally, but under the local rules, and i practice in this vurs dictijurisdiction, local rules, court records that are sealed must be reviewed every two years to see if they should continue to be sealed because the presumption is against sealing. after all, courts want records to be public. whatever the attorneys choose to keep confidential in discovery is up to them, but if yo...

Clerk's office, impounded by the court. >> the usual reason this occurs, is that the court and the judge have made a determination that a potential defendant might be deprived of a fair trial if the evidence is released prematurely. >> in this case, there may be concern over one focus. football player, aaron hernandez. murder victim, odin lloyd, was a friend of hernandez. his body was found less than a mile from the football player's luxury home. they have searched his house twice removing more than a dozen bags of undisclosed items. what was taken could have been made public but the list is n...

Any other defendant coming into the criminal justice system. >> now, the players in this case are clamping down on the information. the government started sealing documents last friday. the defense today was grnt add pre-trial publicity motion, essentially that amounts to a gag order. shep? >> shepard: mike tobin at the courthouse centennial, colorado this afternoon. police say the shooter or suspected shooter shopped for part of his arsenal online. as you or i might buy books or shoes. investigators say he had more than 50 packages sent to his home and the university of colorado where he was ...