TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A judge plans to review 255 pages of emails that a newspaper has requested from a community college that the Tucson mass shooting suspect attended.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Stephen Villarreal said Friday he wants to see the documents before deciding whether The Arizona Republic should get them.
Pima Community College has until Tuesday to give him the emails and other documents pertaining to defendant Jared Loughner, the Republic reported.
The college has fought to keep the documents private since the Jan. 8 shootings that left six dead and 13 wounded, including Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The judge could make public all, some or none of them.
Republic attorney David Bodney argued the documents must be released under Arizona's public records law. But attorney John Richardson, who represents Pima Community College, said the documents are confidential student records and the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act prohibits the school from releasing them.