Track Palin seeks to bar media in assault proceedings
Anchorage, Alaska (AP) —
The eldest son of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is seeking to bar the media from covering court hearings after he was accused of assaulting his father last year at the family home in Alaska.
A lawyer for Track Palin, 29, filed a motion Friday to prohibit or limit media access to proceedings ... including a hearing scheduled to take place Tuesday.
Anchorage District Court Judge David Wallace denied media requests to cover pre-trial proceedings earlier this week ... Wallace was appointed to the bench by Sarah Palin when she was Alaska’s governor. A phone message left at the court asking if Wallace planned to recuse himself because of that tie was not immediately returned.
Track Palin was arrested in December after his mother told authorities her son was on some kind of medication and “freaking out.” A police affidavit says father Todd Palin was bleeding from head cuts. He told police the dispute began when his son called to pick up his truck from the Palins’ home in Wasilla.
According to the affidavit, Todd Palin said he told Track Palin not to come to the house but that his son said he would come anyway to beat him up. Todd Palin told police he got his pistol “to protect his family.” Track Palin told police he broke a window, disarmed his father and put him on the ground. Track Palin yelled at officers, calling them peasants, and “moved around in a strange manner” before being arrested without incident, the affidavit says.
He told police he “consumed a few beers earlier,” the document says.
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