Sharkey's day in court

Update to a previous post: A court commissioner issued a gag order in the case of three adolescent boys charged with killing three poor fishes at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA.

The order prevents attorneys in the case from talking to the media, and came during a hearing to decide whether Deputy District Attorney Sheila Callaghan should be recused from the case. A motion by a deputy public defender representing one of the boys accused Callaghan of bias, largely because of comments she made to the local news early in the case. The recusal motion was denied this past Tuesday.

The case centers on three middle school students accused of torturing and killing two sharks and a ray after breaking into the Shark Lagoon exhibit November 8.