Yes, gag everyone else except them.
My memory did not fail me:
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060730
On May 24, 2006, Paul Bonner reported in The Herald-Sun, a Durham newspaper:
"DURHAM — A lawyer with the state NAACP said the civil rights organization intends to seek a gag order in the Duke lacrosse case, and a journalist who participated in a forum with him on Wednesday said media coverage of the alleged rape may deprive the alleged victim of her legal rights to a fair trial.
"Al McSurely, an attorney who chairs the Legal Redress Committee for the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he generally respects the defense attorneys in the case as colleagues. But they are violating the State Bar's rules of professional conduct that discourage comments outside court that are likely to prejudice a case, he said.
"The NAACP will try to intervene in the case to file a 'quiet zone/let's let justice work' motion. That is otherwise known as a gag order, he acknowledged, although he said he doesn't like that term."
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Right. They wanted everybody directly connected to the case to shut up so they could control the dialogue. They, though, would not have to have been silent under such an order because they're not directly involved in the case. Didn't work, lol!